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Culture as embodiment : the social tuning of behavior / Paul Voestermans and Theo Verheggen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: EB00084322 | Recorded BooksLanguage: English Original language: Dutch Publisher: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781118454091
  • 111845409X
  • 9781118454121
  • 111845412X
  • 9781118485330
  • 1118485335
  • 9781118454114
  • 1118454111
  • 1119961882 (cloth)
  • 9781119961888 (cloth)
Uniform titles:
  • Cultuur & lichaam. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Culture as embodiment.DDC classification:
  • 302 23
LOC classification:
  • HM1033
Online resources:
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.
Summary: ICulture as Embodiment/i utilizes recent insights in psychology, cognitive, and affective science to reveal the cultural patterning of behavior in group-related practices./ ulliApplies the best of the behavioural sciences to contemporary issues of behavioural cross-fertilizationin global exchange/liliPresents an original theory to be used in the gender and integration debates, about what the acceptance of newcomers from different cultural backgrounds really entails/liliPresents a theory that is also applicable to youth culture and the split in modern society between underclass, modal class, and the elite/liliContains an original approach to the persistence of religion, and relates religious thought to the cognitive capacity of generic belief/li/ul.
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"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.

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.

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ICulture as Embodiment/i utilizes recent insights in psychology, cognitive, and affective science to reveal the cultural patterning of behavior in group-related practices./ ulliApplies the best of the behavioural sciences to contemporary issues of behavioural cross-fertilizationin global exchange/liliPresents an original theory to be used in the gender and integration debates, about what the acceptance of newcomers from different cultural backgrounds really entails/liliPresents a theory that is also applicable to youth culture and the split in modern society between underclass, modal class, and the elite/liliContains an original approach to the persistence of religion, and relates religious thought to the cognitive capacity of generic belief/li/ul.

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