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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A Problem That Cannot Be Solved Charles W. Nuckolls. The University of Wisconsin Press 2537 Daniels Street Madison , Wisconsin 53718 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU , England Copyright © 1998 The Board of Regents of the University of ...
A Problem That Cannot Be Solved Charles W. Nuckolls. types and their eternal struggle or dialectic ; psychiatry's ( double - bound ? ) task of healing people while keeping underlying cultural problems un- solved ; the conceptual ...
A Problem That Cannot Be Solved Charles W. Nuckolls. Who , then , is social and who is antisocial ? Professor ... problems . If , paradoxically and psychodynamically , our problems are also our solutions , so that we do not have to face ...
... problems . Who wouldn't want to solve something identified as a problem ? Common sense tells us that what anyone defines or diagnoses as a problem is something on which that person wants some resolution , some closure . But , then ...
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 |