Culture: A Problem That Cannot Be SolvedUniv of Wisconsin Press, Sep 15, 1998 - 328 pages French 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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... independence with masculinity , 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 ...
... born of revolution ; their corporate and national structure is regally hierarchical . Americans celebrate independence from the fetters of royalty , only to have kings and queens of football Copyrighted Material FOREWORD xi.
... independence and 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 ...
... Independence 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 ...
... independence is allocated to men , and men who represent this value in extreme form become diagnosable with one of the disorders of independence , such as narcissistic or antisocial personality disorder . Similarly , the value of ...
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 |