Culture, Behavior and Personality: An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Psychosocial Adaptation

ISBN-13: 9781138521865 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 352 str.

Robert Levine

Opis

This book presents an overview of the sense of theoretical problem in culture and personality research and a biological perspective on culture and the individual. It describes relations between psychological theory and method, and explores the psychology of culture and social change.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Comparative Study of Personality and Sociocultural Environments 1. Basic Questions for Culture and Personality Research 2. Group Differences In Individual Behavior Patterns An Overview of Existing Theories and Methods 3. Theoretical Conceptions of Culture-Personality Relations 4. Concepts of Socialization 5. Methods of Assessing Personality 6. Institutions, Deviance and Change Population Psychology: An Evolutionary Model of Culture and Personality 7. The Applicability of a Darwinian View 8. Basic Concepts In an Evolutionary Model 9. Adaptive Processes 1: Stability 10. Adaptive Processes II: Change 11. A Cost-Benefit View of Psychosocial Adaptation The Study of Individual Dispositions in Social Settings 12. Strategies in Personality Study 13. Psychoanalytic Clinical Method 14. The Couch and the Field 15. Universal Categories and the Translation Problem 16. Psychoanalytic Ethnography: Structures for Comparative Observation 17. Religious Symbols and Religious Experience Conclusions 18. New Directions in Culture and Personality Research 19. The Self in Culture

O autorze

Robert A LeVine