Culture, Behavior, and Personality

An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Psychosocial Adaptation

Robert A Levine (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

1982 | 2nd edition
AldineTransaction (Verlag)
978-0-202-01168-4 (ISBN)

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This new edition of Culture, Behavior, and Personality is organized into ve parts. Part I de nes the eld of inquiry, Part II presents a critical review of existing theories and methods, Part III expounds LeVine's unique Darwinian model of culture and personality, Part IV deals with the strategies and methods with which to study individual dispositions within the sociocultural matrix, Part V concludes with two essays on cultural and personality research including new advances and avenues of research that have appeared within the last seven years.

Robert A. LeVine is Roy Edward Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development Emeritus at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. One of his main research concerns parenthood and child development in societies such as African, Asian and Latin American. He is a member of numerous professional organizations such as National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation, where he is on the Board of Directors.

Introduction: The Comparative Study of Personality and Sociocultural Environments 1. Basic Questions for Culture and Personality Research 2. Group Differences In Individual Behavior Patterns An Overview of Existing Theories and Methods 3. Theoretical Conceptions of Culture-Personality Relations 4. Concepts of Socialization 5. Methods of Assessing Personality 6. Institutions, Deviance and Change Population Psychology: An Evolutionary Model of Culture and Personality 7. The Applicability of a Darwinian View 8. Basic Concepts In an Evolutionary Model 9. Adaptive Processes 1: Stability 10. Adaptive Processes II: Change 11. A Cost-Benefit View of Psychosocial Adaptation The Study of Individual Dispositions in Social Settings 12. Strategies in Personality Study 13. Psychoanalytic Clinical Method 14. The Couch and the Field 15. Universal Categories and the Translation Problem 16. Psychoanalytic Ethnography: Structures for Comparative Observation 17. Religious Symbols and Religious Experience Conclusions 18. New Directions in Culture and Personality Research 19. The Self in Culture

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.2007
Reihe/Serie	Culture, Behavior and Personality \| 1.10
Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	589 g
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-202-01168-2 / 0202011682
ISBN-13	978-0-202-01168-4 / 9780202011684
Zustand	Neuware