Culture: A Problem That Cannot Be SolvedFrench historian Alexis de Tocqueville observed that the conflict between the ideals of individualism and community defines American culture. In this groundbreaking new work, anthropologist Charles Nuckolls discovers that every culture consists of such paradoxes, thus making culture a problem that cannot be solved. He does, however, find much creative tension in these unresolvable opposites. |
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... Durkheim , Freud , Sapir , Kluckhohn , and Spiro ( among others ) , an alchemist who clearly has his own voice in ... Durkheimian , and Weberian analysis ; the gendering of value and of pathology ( female = histrionic , male = antisocial ) ...
... Durkheim and Weber and Kant , to be precise . Ambivalence is no epiphenomenal icing on the cake of custom — postmodernist , Marxist , materialist , or symbolist . Ambivalence lies at the core of human devel- opment and of every social ...
... Durkheim said , and must we explain social facts only in terms of other social facts ? Or is society made up of ... Durkheim's sociocentric position produced inter- esting results , after all , even though it depends on a paradoxical ...
... Durkheim's theory of religion and , arguably , the point of inception for both British and American anthropology . Surveying the intellectual land- scape more than a century after Hume and Kant , Durkheim commented : Up to the present ...
... Durkheim proposed com- bines the best of the two rival accounts , empiricist and rationalist , by stating that knowledge is not based in individual experience and that it has an empirical origin in ascertainable reality . But instead of ...
Contents
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Value Dialectics and the Construction of a Regional Identity Max Weber in Oklahoma | 74 |
The Allocation of Value to Gender and the Cultural History of Psychiatric Diagnosis | 108 |
Cultural Ambivalence and the Knowledge Structures of Modern American Psychiatry | 161 |
The Narrative Reproduction of Values in Psychiatric Training and Practice | 202 |
Dialectical Values and Cultural Paradox | 270 |
Bibliography | 279 |
Index | 293 |