Pauline Pepinsky

Worlds of Common Sense (eBook, PDF)

Equality, Identity, and Two Modes of Impulse Management

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the construction and maintenance of alternative worlds of common sense. Employing a comparative approach, Dr. Pepinsky monitors events in Norway and the United States over several decades, treating these countries as prototypes of societies that are classifiable as modern Western democracies, but which exhibit marked contrasts in size and cultural homogeneity. She examines the conditions under which different social realities are generated, the assumptions that they presuppose, and the practices that sustain them. She then goes on to analyze the methods by which continuity is maintained and the grounds upon which changes are legitimized over time.

Pepinsky directs her book at an interdisciplinary audience. She addresses problems of increasing concern in the social sciences and in the world at large. Cultural differences in modal perspective affect the formulation of public policies and also contribute to intergroup tensions, as interpersonal relations are simultaneously becoming intercultural encounters within many contemporary societies. Researchers and students in social and cross-cultural psychology, ethnography, sociology, and political science will find this work of considerable interest.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 1994
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313030994
• Artikelnr.: 37817404

Autorenporträt

PAULINE NICHOLS PEPINSKY is a Senior Research Associate in Social Science, Mershon Center, The Ohio State University. She has published previously on related topics in the areas of interracial relations, counseling psychology, and experimental social psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction and Overview: Linking Self and Society in Belief and Action
Alternative Definitions of Equality Alternative Threats to Personal
Identity: Discovery and Anonymity The Management of Impulse and Two
Normalizing Modes of Action Modal Variations and Immanent Definitions of
Deviance Mixed Modes of the Sixties: Making and Remaking the American Scene
The Shaping of Change and the Process of Modal Symbiosis Norway in the
Eighties: The Oil Era and its Aftermath Cross-Cultural Implications Summing
Up and Looking Ahead