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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... consider the topic that informs much of this book : the conflict between the American values of independence and dependence , or individualism and collectivism . Should we be ruggedly individualistic and cooperate only to the extent ...
... consider my work a return to structuralism — and I am unabashed about saying so — a strucruralist theory of culture ... considers those theories best that clearly specify causes and consequences in direct linear fashion . Second ...
... consider a domain that , by way of analogy , might offer us some guidance . Aesthetic theory offers some hints as to how we should begin , and therefore I begin with a little excursion into literature and art . Hamlet's soliloquy is ...
... consider the Parsons - Kluckhohn concept of values more abstractly . It is not purely cyclical , however , because the whole point is to build something new and to use everything developed earlier in the book to achieve a cumulative ...
... consider , movement flows from the integration of opposing values to their fulfillment in the form of a social cynosure and then , finally , to their division and the collapse of the compromise identity . The third and longest case ...
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 |