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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... expression in a form that can be named and savored . In a way , Kant provides us with a language for talking about thought and feeling that does not dissolve one into the other but allows them to exist in full dynamic relationship to ...
... expression . Of the first , Durkheim said that " nothing remains but individual appetites , and since they are hy nature boundless and insatiable , if there is nothing to control them they will not be able to control themselves " ( 1960 ...
... expressions reflecting generalized meanings or vaiues . And to the extent that the individual personality is a product of training in a tradition it is also at the generalized value level that he finds the most significant differences ...
... expressions such as this and then attributes to the value ( thus inferred ) some kind of motivational quality . Such a method is not unique to the values project hut characteristic of most of symbolic anthropology and of more recent ...
... expressions as " She is warm and compassionate " and " He is angry and aggressive " and implicate different and sometimes opposing cultural values by making emotion judgments . The second approach is to examine roles as composites that ...
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 |