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Culture as embodiment : the social tuning of behavior / Paul Voestermans and Theo Verheggen.
Van Pelt Library HM1033 .V6413 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Voestermans, P. (Paul), 1946-
- Standardized Title:
- Cultuur & lichaam. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social psychology.
- Ethnopsychology.
- Culture and psychology.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 332 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2013.
- Summary:
- Utilizing the most recent insights in psychology, cognitive, and affective science, Culture as Embodiment reveals the true cultural patterning of behavior in group-related practices. Refuting longstanding notions that culture alone is responsible for group behavior, cultural psychology experts Voestermans and Verheggen cogently argue that behavioral science must first specify what the notion of culture consists of, in terms of concrete empirical evidence. The authors proceed to lay out a coherent set of perspectives on the social tuning of the body, behavior, feeling, and cognition to reveal that what we call culture is actually an embodied affair, to be observed in recognizable practices among group members. Their conclusions are supported through lengthy analyses of key domains of human behavior, including gender and male-female power relations, class and age differences, ethnicity, and religious faith. Thought-provoking and timely, Culture as Embodiment offers original and indispensable insights into our understanding of the forces that shape behavior in the twenty-first-century globalized world. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Understanding culture
- Inventing culture theory
- A psychological perspective on culture
- Sex: the shaping of sex and gender
- Status: the body of class and organized compliance
- Age: the optimal balance of love and challenge
- Ethnicity: cultural arrests and bicultural competance
- Faith: religion as a man-made order
- A psychology of globalization
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- "Dutch edition published 2007 by Open Universiteit Nederland and Blackwell Publishing Ltd."
- Revised edition of the author's Cultuur & lichaam : een cultuurpsychologisch perspectief op patronen in gedrag.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Voestermans, P. (Paul), 1946- Culture as embodiment.
- ISBN:
- 9781119961888
- 1119961882
- OCLC:
- 835621023
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