How does culture affect action? This question has long been framed in terms of a means vs ends debate—in other words, do cultural ends or cultural means play a primary causal role in human behavior? However, the role of socialization has been largely overlooked in this debate. In this book, Vila-Henninger develops a model of how culture affects action called “The Sociological Dual-Process Model of Outcomes” that incorporates socialization.This book contributes to the debate by first providing a critical overview of the literature that explains the limitations of the sociological...
How does culture affect action? This question has long been framed in terms of a means vs ends debate—in other words, do cultural ends or cultural m...