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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... According to Friedrich Jacobi , who invented the term , nihilism is the inevitable if nevertheless unintended outcome of all philosophical reflection , that is , of all reflection guided by reason alone . In the place of reasoned ...
... have to resurrect intellectual spirits that are moribund if not dead . I refer mainly to Talcott Parsons and to Clyde and Florence Kluckhohn . PLAN OF THIS WORK According to Robert Murphy , social Copyrighted Material PREFACE xxi.
A Problem That Cannot Be Solved Charles W. Nuckolls. PLAN OF THIS WORK According to Robert Murphy , social thought , unlike the natural sciences , tends to be cyclical , returning periodically for sustenance , reassessment , and ...
... According to Durkheim , We must ... do violence to certain of our strongest inclinations . There- fore , since the role of the social being in our single selves will grow ever more important as history moves ahead , it is wholly ...
... According to his brother Alfred , Max Weber read Durkheim's work and even kept a complete set of Durkheim's journal , the Annie sociologique , in his Heidelberg library . Durkheim's nephew and colleague , Marcel Mauss , visited Weber in ...
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 |