Culture as Embodiment utilizes recent insights in psychology, cognitive, and affective science to reveal the cultural patterning of behavior in group-related practices.
- Applies the best of the behavioural sciences to contemporary issues of behavioural cross-fertilization in global exchange
- Presents an original theory to be used in the gender and integration debates, about what the acceptance of newcomers from different cultural backgrounds really entails
- Presents a theory that is also applicable to youth culture and the split in modern society between underclass, modal class, and the elite
- Contains an original approach to the persistence of religion, and relates religious thought to the cognitive capacity of generic belief
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments xii
Part One Towards a New Psychology of Culture 1
1 Understanding Culture 3
2 Inventing Culture Theory 27
3 A Psychological Perspective on Culture 70
Part Two Sex, Status, Age, Ethnicity, and Faith 109
4 Sex: The Shaping of Sex and Gender 113
5 Status: The Body of Class and Organized Compliance 141
6 Age: The Optimal Balance of Love and Challenge 160
7 Ethnicity: Cultural Arrests and Bicultural Competence 188
8 Faith: Religion as a Man-made Order 211
Part Three Psychology and Globalization 243
9 A Psychology of Globalization 245
10 Epilogue 287
Bibliographical Essay 292
Index 319
