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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... dependence with femininity — and with the specific form these constructions and their underlying conflicts take in American history . He goes even further : behind the clinical and cultural ideology of two piles of people is their ...
... dependence , or individualism and collectivism . Should we be ruggedly individualistic and cooperate only to the extent that it serves our individual interests ? Or should we construct social institutions on the model of the family and ...
... dependence , for example , are not simply arbitrary tokens arranged in meaningful contrast to each other ; they are deeply motivating value orientations . The unresolvable opposition between them generates the kind of ambivalence that ...
... dependence is allocated to women , and the women who represent this value become diagnosable with one of the disorders of dependence , such as histrionic or borderline personality disorders . This study demonsrrates that a dialectic of ...
... dependence or commitment is assigned to women and defined as a naturally feminine trait . As a marker of normality , it directed women to the achievement of interpersonal well - being that was validated mainly in religious or spiritual ...
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 |