A Study of Personal and Cultural Values
American, Japanese, and Vietnamese
D'Andrade, Roy
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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 differences in personal values between cultures. DAndrade argues that people live in two distinct value worlds; the world of personal values and the world of institutionalized values. Assessing these value worlds, DAndrade is able to explain the contrast between ethnography and survey data, while making vital commentary on American, Vietnamese, and Japanese culture. With insight and precision, this book contributes to the important debate that the Culture, Mind, and Society series has initiated.
AUTHOR BIO
Roy DAndrade is Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, the author of The Development of Cognitive Anthropology, and the co-editor of Human Motives and Cultural Models.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction * The Conceptual Framework * Questionnaire Construction * The Organization of Values * Similarities and Differences * The Americans * The Vietnamese * The Japanese * Institutionalized Values
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0230602991
ISBN(13-digit): 9780230602991
Dewey Decimal: 303.3/72
Library of Congress: 2008299581
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 171
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