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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... refers to realities that are internal : " For the beautiful in nature we must see a ground external to ourselves , but for the sublime one merely in ourselves and the attitude of mind that introduces sublimity into the representation of ...
... we shall have to resurrect intellectual spirits that are moribund if not dead . I refer mainly to Talcott Parsons and to Clyde and Florence Kluckhohn . PLAN OF THIS WORK According to Robert Murphy , social Copyrighted Material PREFACE xxi.
... refer more to innate biophysical dispositions than to arbitrary cultural values . It could be argued that ... refers to modal personality and to Gorer's hypothesis that Russian authoritarianism results from the tight swaddling of Russian ...
... refer , of course , to ambivalence . In his work on rotemism Freud provided one of many indications of just how important ambivalence is to social Copyrighted Material 12 THE PARADOXES OF DESIRE AND THE DIALECTICS OF VALUE.
... refers to patterns of childrearing that shape development and provide motivational direction . Children desire the parent of the opposite sex but are denied and in response idenrify with the parent of the same sex , who restrains them ...
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 |