Status Inequality - The Self in Culture

Klappentext With his co-author! De Vos - a major figure in psychological anthropology - explores anthropological! sociological and psychoanalytical insights into human behaviour. Their unified theory synthesizes social structure and personality structure! concepts previously seen as diametrically opposed. The authors point to the symbolic nature of groups! the experience of ethnicity and of inequality! and the impact of internal and external variables on the sense of self. Separating the effects of status inequality from other social and psychological determinants of behaviour! this intriguing work discusses the developmental experience of the self. Zusammenfassung A study of the effects of minority status on individual and group behaviour. Drawing on anthropology! psychology and sociology! this work examines the experience of ethnicity and inequality and the impact of both internal and external variables on the sense of self. Inhaltsverzeichnis Self in Society A Multilevel! Psychocultural Analysis Internalization and Human Resonance From Empathy to Alienation Sacrifice and the Experience of Power Conflict! Dominance and Exploitation The Sacred and Expressive in Systems of Social Segregation Caste and Gender A Psychocultural Approach to Awe! Purity and Pollution Conflict and Accommodation in Ethnic Interaction Ethnic Belonging and Status Mobility Migration! Minority Status and Education US-Europe Comparisons

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• Authors: George De Vos, George A. De Vos, George A. Suarez-Orozco De Vos, DE VOS GEORGE SUAREZ OROZCO MA, Marcel Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, George a. de Vos, George A. De Suarez-Orozco Vos
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.1991
• EAN: 9780803939622
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-3962-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cross Cultural Research and Methodology; Sage Series on Close Relations; Cross Cultural Research and Methodology
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous