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Author Voestermans, P. (Paul), 1946-

Title Culture as embodiment : the social tuning of behavior / Paul Voestermans and Theo Verheggen
Published Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013

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Contents Understanding culture -- Inventing culture theory -- A psychological perspective on culture -- Sex: the shaping of sex and gender -- Status: the body of class and organized compliance -- Age: the optimal balance of love and challenge -- Ethnicity: cultural arrests and bicultural competance -- Faith: religion as a man-made order -- A psychology of globalization -- Epilogue
Summary ICulture as Embodiment/i utilizes recent insights in psychology, cognitive, and affective science to reveal the cultural patterning of behavior in group-related practices./ ulliApplies the best of the behavioural sciences to contemporary issues of behavioural cross-fertilizationin global exchange/liliPresents an original theory to be used in the gender and integration debates, about what the acceptance of newcomers from different cultural backgrounds really entails/liliPresents a theory that is also applicable to youth culture and the split in modern society between underclass, modal class, and the elite/liliContains an original approach to the persistence of religion, and relates religious thought to the cognitive capacity of generic belief/li/ul
Notes "Dutch edition published 2007 by Open Universiteit Nederland and Blackwell Publishing Ltd."
Revised edition of the author's Cultuur & lichaam : een cultuurpsychologisch perspectief op patronen in gedrag
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Social psychology.
Ethnopsychology.
Culture and psychology
social psychology.
ethnopsychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Ethnopsychology.
Social psychology.
Form Electronic book
Author Verheggen, Theo, 1972-
LC no. 2013013685
ISBN 9781118454091
111845409X
9781118454121
111845412X
9781118485330
1118485335
9781118454114
1118454111
Other Titles Cultuur & lichaam. English