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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... society so grimly devoted to waging wars against alcohol , cocaine , crack , heroin , teenage sex , child abuse , and the like might require these substances and deviant categories to sustain — not only to offend and scandalize — the ...
... society a reality sui generis , as Durkheim said , and must we explain social facts only in terms of other social facts ? Or is society made up of individuals who construct society through their multiple and changing interactions ? Both ...
... Societies ; and the National Endowment for the Humanities . To Lorna Rhodes and Howard Stein I owe a special debt of gratitude , for they not only read whole drafts of this book but they gave me excellent comments . To Rosalie Robertson ...
... society determines the characteristic morphology of conceptual categories . Third , systems of knowledge based on socially derived categories generate cos- mologies , the basis for religious explanation . Fourrh , if societies evolve ...
... societies pass though totemic stages , and modern societies bear the traces . For Durkheim the totem is the embodiment of the collective conscience . It is society itself , and the classification it imposes orders the universe . As ...
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 |