Personality and the Cultural Construction of Society

Pyschological anthropology is a vital area of contemporary social science, and one of the field's most important and innovative thinkers is Melford E. Spiro. This volume brings together sixteen essays that review Spiro's theoretical insights and extend them into new areas. The essays center on several general problems: In what ways is it meaningful to speak of a social act as having "functions"? What elements and processes of human personality are universal, and why? What is the relationship between religion and personality? Why? What are the pyschological underpinnings of social manipulation?

About the author

David K. Jordan and Marc J. Swartz both hold Professor Emeritus rank at the University of California-San Diego.

Product details

• Authors: David K. Jordan, Marc J. Swartz
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2010
• EAN: 9780817356347
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5634-7
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 658 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous