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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... functional one . Durkheim remained a rationalist in terms of what he thought people needed or wanted to have knowledge of . He limited the available choices to natural phenomena , assuming ( like Frazer and Muller ) that such events ...
... function be- come increasingly attenuated . The division of labor , pushed to an extreme , undermines sociality by compromising solidarity . Each individual works alone , separated from others , and increasingly remote from Copyrighted ...
... functional reference and predication ) . Mathematics and ( at least some parts of ) linguistic theory therefore hold to the logic of identifying invariants that remain the same even under transformation , entitling one to speak of them ...
... function ? Parsons almost always spoke of " value - orientations , " to refer to a type of symbol that serves an evalu- ative function in the making of moral judgments . This distinguishes them from purely cognitive symbols , which come ...
... functional and the basis for a certain kind of system . A dynamic - dialectical view can go further and defines contradiction as basic to the system . That is good , because we cannot do away with contradiction in any case . This view ...
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 |