Study of Personal and Cultural Values - American, Japanese, and Vietnamese

This study analyzes American, Vietnamese and Japanese personal values, attempting to understand how it can be ethnographers find large differences in values between cultures, yet empirical surveys find relatively small, almost trivial differences in personal values between cultures.

List of contents

Introduction The Conceptual Framework Questionnaire Construction The Organization of Values Similarities and Differences The Americans The Vietnamese The Japanese Institutionalized Values

About the author

ROY GOODWN D'ANDRADE is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Summary

This study analyzes American, Vietnamese and Japanese personal values, attempting to understand how it can be ethnographers find large differences in values between cultures, yet empirical surveys find relatively small, almost trivial differences in personal values between cultures.

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Roy G. andrade, D&apos, R D'Andrade, R. D'Andrade, Roy G. D'Andrade, R. D''andrade, Roy G. D''andrade
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2015
• EAN: 9781349371419
• ISBN: 978-1-349-37141-9
• No. of pages: 173
• Series: Culture, Mind, and Society; Culture, Mind, and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Culture, Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Ethnology, Social & cultural anthropology, Ethnography, Sociology, general, Social Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, culture;Institution;organization;organizations;Questionnaire