Culture as embodiment
Subtitle: the social tuning of behavior
By: Paul Voestermans and Theo Verheggen
Contributors: Verheggen, Theo, 1972- author
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell; Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781119961888
Subjects: Social psychology; Ethnopsychology; Culture and psychology
Work titles: Cultuur & lichaam
Description: This text utilizes recent insights in psychology, cognitive, and affective science to reveal the cultural patterning of behavior in group-related practices. Applies the best of the behavioural sciences to contemporary issues of behavioural cross-fertilizationin global exchange. Presents an original theory to be used in the gender and integration debates, about what the acceptance of newcomers from different cultural backgrounds really entails. Presents a theory that is also applicable to youth culture and the split in modern society between underclass, modal class, and the elite. Contains an original approach to the persistence of religion, and relates religious thought to the cognitive capacity of generic belief.
Notes: "Dutch edition published 2007 by Open Universiteit Nederland and Blackwell Publishing Ltd."

Revised edition of the author's Cultuur & lichaam : een cultuurpsychologisch perspectief op patronen in gedrag.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding culture; title: Inventing culture theory; title: A psychological perspective on culture; title: Sex: the shaping of sex and gender; title: Status: the body of class and organized compliance; title: Age: the optimal balance of love and challenge; title: Ethnicity: cultural arrests and bicultural competance; title: Faith: religion as a man-made order; title: A psychology of globalization; title: Epilogue.