Sociocultural Studies of Mind
ISBN: 9780521476430 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Sociocultural Studies of Mind addresses the question of how mental functioning is related to the cultural, historical, and institutional settings in which it takes place. There are three unifying ideas that run through the volume: 1) one of the basic ways that sociocultural setting shapes mental functioning is through the cultural tools employed, 2) mediation provides a formulation of how this shaping occurs, and 3) in order to specify how cultural tools exist and have their effects, it is essential to focus on human action as a unit of analysis. This landmark volume defines a general...
Sociocultural Studies of Mind addresses the question of how mental functioning is related to the cultural, historical, and institutional settings in w...
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188,77 zł |
Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling
ISBN: 9780521541466 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) How human emotions are 'constructed' from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings.
How human emotions are 'constructed' from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings.
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198,64 zł |
Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling
ISBN: 9780521641630 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e., biological reductionism) or as products of culture (i.e., social constructionism). Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities? Zoltan Kovecses demonstrates how cultural aspects, metaphorical language, and human physiology are part of an integrated system. This book challenges the simplistic division between the body and culture by stressing how human emotions are to a large extent "constructed" from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings. Hb ISBN...
Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e., biological reductionism) or as products of culture (i.e., social construct...
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346,67 zł |
Japanese Frames of Mind: Cultural Perspectives on Human Development
ISBN: 9780521786980 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Japanese Frames of Mind raises the question as to what Japanese psychology offers Western psychology, in light of research conducted by Japanese and American researchers. The chapters provide a wealth of new data related to Japanese child development, moral reasoning and narratives, schooling and family socialization, and adolescent experiences. By placing the Japanese evidence within the context of Western psychological theory and research, the book calls for a systematic reexamination of Western psychology as one psychology among many other ethnopsychologies.
Japanese Frames of Mind raises the question as to what Japanese psychology offers Western psychology, in light of research conducted by Japanese and A...
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213,43 zł |
Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780742560543 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The urgent debate over a multiracial category in the 2000 census forced the nation to reflect upon the important questions of what it means to construct and maintain a racial identity. Using in-depth interviews and survey data, Beyond Black documents how biracial people develop many different racial identities and how these self-understandings are derived from historical and contemporary social, cultural, interactional, and psychological processes.
The urgent debate over a multiracial category in the 2000 census forced the nation to reflect upon the important questions of what it means to constru...
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559,06 zł |
Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780742560550 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The urgent debate over a multiracial category in the 2000 census forced the nation to reflect upon the important questions of what it means to construct and maintain a racial identity. Using in-depth interviews and survey data, Beyond Black documents how biracial people develop many different racial identities and how these self-understandings are derived from historical and contemporary social, cultural, interactional, and psychological processes.
The urgent debate over a multiracial category in the 2000 census forced the nation to reflect upon the important questions of what it means to constru...
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219,24 zł |
Black Skin, White Masks
ISBN: 9780802143006 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon s masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.
A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952,... Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks re...
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Cultures of Infancy
ISBN: 9780805848953 / Angielski / Twarda / 387 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Cultures of Infancy presents the first systematic analysis of culturally informed developmental pathways, synthesizing evolutionary and cultural psychological perspectives for a broader understanding of human development. In this compelling book, author Heidi Keller utilizes ethnographic reports, as well as quantitative and qualitative analyses, to illustrate how humans resolve universal developmental tasks in particular sociodemographic contexts. These contexts are represented in cultural models, and three distinct models are addressed throughout the text: the model of independence with... Cultures of Infancy presents the first systematic analysis of culturally informed developmental pathways, synthesizing evolutionary and cultural ps... |
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Cultures of Infancy
ISBN: 9780805863154 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Cultures of Infancy presents the first systematic analysis of culturally informed developmental pathways, synthesizing evolutionary and cultural psychological perspectives for a broader understanding of human development. In this compelling book, author Heidi Keller utilizes ethnographic reports, as well as quantitative and qualitative analyses, to illustrate how humans resolve universal developmental tasks in particular sociodemographic contexts. These contexts are represented in cultural models, and three distinct models are addressed throughout the text: the model of independence with... Cultures of Infancy presents the first systematic analysis of culturally informed developmental pathways, synthesizing evolutionary and cultural ps... |
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286,34 zł |
American Karma: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora
ISBN: 9780814799581 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors. American Karma draws on participant observation and in-depth interviews to explore how these highly skilled professionals have been inserted into the racial dynamics of American society and transformed into -people of color.- Focusing on first-generation, middle-class Indians in American suburbia, it also sheds light on how these... The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a hig... |
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385,32 zł |
American Karma: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian Diaspora
ISBN: 9780814799598 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a high degree of training as medical doctors, engineers, scientists, and university professors. American Karma draws on participant observation and in-depth interviews to explore how these highly skilled professionals have been inserted into the racial dynamics of American society and transformed into "people of color." Focusing on first-generation, middle-class Indians in American suburbia, it also sheds light on how these... The Indian American community is one of the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. Unlike previous generations, they are marked by a hig... |
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130,13 zł |
A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change
ISBN: 9781405162555 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures.
This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and so...
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262,82 zł |
Multiculturalism and Intergroup Relations: Psychological Implications for Democracy in Global Context
ISBN: 9781433803079 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) How can we best manage cultural diversity and avoid intergroup conflict and terrorism in this fast-changing world? In Multiculturalism and Intergroup Relations: Psychological Implications for Democracy in Global Context, author Fathali M. Moghaddam applies current psychological theories on intergroup relations to a variety of cultures and conflicts across the globe. While focusing primarily on the effect of globalization and how it facilitates cultural homogenization, Moghaddam examines what psychological research and theory can teach us about democracy and policies for managing diversity....
How can we best manage cultural diversity and avoid intergroup conflict and terrorism in this fast-changing world? In Multiculturalism and Intergroup ...
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145,74 zł |
Ethnocultural Factors in Substance Abuse Treatment
ISBN: 9781572308855 / Angielski / Miękka / 447 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book presents a culturally informed framework for understanding and treating substance abuse problems. From expert contributors, chapters cover specific ethnocultural groups in the United States, including Americans of African, Native American, Latino, European, Middle Eastern, and Asian descent. Authors examine how ethnocultural factors may affect a person's attitudes toward alcohol and other drugs, patterns of substance use, reasons for seeking treatment, and responsiveness to various interventions. Themes addressed include the impact of migration and acculturation issues, spiritual...
This book presents a culturally informed framework for understanding and treating substance abuse problems. From expert contributors, chapters cover s...
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260,30 zł |
Asian American Identities: Racial and Ethnic Identity Issues in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781934043622 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The definition of who is fit for inclusion within the Asian American category has been contested in recent years, and this book explores the experiences of those categorized as such at the dawn of the 21st century. Beyond the scope of how people are defined and categorized by the state, the central question explored in this book addresses how individuals themselves define what it means to be Asian American.
The definition of who is fit for inclusion within the Asian American category has been contested in recent years, and this book explores the experienc...
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480,74 zł |
The Crescent and the Couch: Cross-Currents Between Islam and Psychoanalysis
ISBN: 9780765705747 / Angielski / Twarda / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Attempting to advance knowledge about Islam and to create the possibility of a dialogue between Islam and psychoanalysis, The Crescent and the Couch brings together a distinguished panel of Muslim and non-Muslim contributors from the fields of history, religion, anthropology, politics, and psychoanalysis. Together these authors highlight the world-changing contributions of prominent Muslim figures, and elucidate the encounter of Islam with Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. Moving on to matters of family, individual personality formation, human sexuality, and religious identity, they also...
Attempting to advance knowledge about Islam and to create the possibility of a dialogue between Islam and psychoanalysis, The Crescent and the Couch b...
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Black America, Body Beautiful: How the African American Image is Changing Fashion, Fitness, and Other Industries
ISBN: 9780275995959 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Despite all the medical and media attention focused on the rate of overweight and obesity in the African American population, African American images and body types are greatly influencing changes in the fashion, fitness, advertising, television and movie industries. This is because overweight, like beauty, can be in the eye of the beholder. Most research studies investigating attitudes about body image and body type among African Americans have shown they are more satisfied with their bodies than are their white counterparts and that there appears to be a wider range of acceptable body... Despite all the medical and media attention focused on the rate of overweight and obesity in the African American population, African American imag... |
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301,46 zł |
Japanese Frames of Mind: Cultural Perspectives on Human Development
ISBN: 9780521781596 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Japanese Frames of Mind raises the question as to what Japanese psychology offers Western psychology, in light of research conducted by Japanese and American researchers. The chapters provide a wealth of new data related to Japanese child development, moral reasoning and narratives, schooling and family socialization, and adolescent experiences. By placing the Japanese evidence within the context of Western psychological theory and research, the book calls for a systematic reexamination of Western psychology as one psychology among many other ethnopsychologies.
Japanese Frames of Mind raises the question as to what Japanese psychology offers Western psychology, in light of research conducted by Japanese and A...
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499,59 zł |
Sources of Stress and Relief for African American Women
ISBN: 9780313361470 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) African American women are dying younger--and at a higher rate--than their white counterparts. Collins shows us how stress plays a role in many of the most common fatal diseases, including heart disease, hypertension, cancer, and diabetes. Studies worldwide have revealed the relationship of stress to disease, citing evidence that African American women may be wired for stress. Written from an afrocentric point of view, Collins's volume investigates sources of stress in the home and workplace. She reviews historical events that planted roots of stress for African American... African American women are dying younger--and at a higher rate--than their white counterparts. Collins shows us how stress plays a role in many of ... |
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142,45 zł |
A Companion to Psychological Anthropology: Modernity and Psychocultural Change
ISBN: 9780631225973 / Angielski / Twarda / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures.
This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and so...
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898,61 zł |