Human Motives and Cultural Models

Klappentext Why do people do what they do? The authors attempt to show how shared cultural knowledge comes to motivate! or fail to motivate! individuals. Zusammenfassung Why do people do what they do? The authors attempt to show how shared cultural knowledge comes to motivate! or fail to motivate! individuals. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Models and motives Claudia Strauss; Part I. Cultural Models as Motives: 2. Schemas and motivation Roy G. D'Andrade; 3. Ghost busters in anthropology Richard A. Shweder; Part II. How Do Cultural Models Become Motives?: 4. How cultural systems become desire: a case study of American romance Dorothy C. Holland; 5. The motivational force of self-understanding: evidence from wives' inner conflicts Naomi Quinn; 6. The directive force of morality tales in a Mexican community Holly F. Mathews; 7. Learning to be an American parent: how cultural models gain directive force Sara Harkness, Charles M. Super and Constance H. Keefer; Part III. Cultural Models as Motives Reconsidered: 8. Motivated models Catherine Lutz; 9. What makes Tony run? Schemas as motives reconsidered Claudia Strauss; 10. Afterword Roy G. D'Andrade; Index.

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• Authors: &apos, Roy G. Strauss andrade, D&apos, Roy G. D'Andrade, Roy G. (University of California D''''andrade, Roy G. Strauss D''''andrade
• Assisted by: Roy G. D'Andrade (Editor), Claudia Strauss (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.1992
• EAN: 9780521423380
• ISBN: 978-0-521-42338-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Publications of the Society fo
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology