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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... norm were in fact different terms for the same thing ( Parsons 1953 ) . Parsons did in fact point the way , although not very clearly . We shall consider Parsons ' ideas in more derail later . For Durkheim the duality of human nature ...
... norms and values from informants 1 statements . This defect springs from a single difficulty , not unique to the values project but typical of most cultural interpretation then and since . In logical terms specifying what philoso- phers ...
... norms are intimately bound up with each other : The logical starting points are these : that a major element in human action analyzed in general terms is the ultimate value system . This value system is manifested for an individual in ...
... norms for norms and provide the governing framework within which particular ends are worked out . But how do values perform this function ? Parsons almost always spoke of " value - orientations , " to refer to a type of symbol that ...
... norms are used . Values are therefore analogous to normative moral orientations . They are embodied in social roles and evaluated ( both cognitively and affectively ) when normative judgment is required . Parsons did not think 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 |