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A PSYCHOLOGY OF CULTURE - MICHAEL B SALZMAN GEB...

This thought-provoking treatise explores the essential functions that culture fulfills in human
life in response to core psychological  physiological  and existential needs. It synthesizes
diverse strands of empirical and theoretical knowledge to trace the development of culture as a
source of morality  self-esteem  identity  and meaning as well as a driver of domination and
upheaval. Extended examples from past and ongoing hostilities also spotlight the resilience of
culture in the aftermath of disruption and trauma  and the possibility of reconciliation
between conflicting cultures. The stimulating insights included here have far-reaching
implications for psychology  education  intergroup relations  politics  and social
policy.Included in the coverage: · Culture as shared meanings and interpretations. · Culture as
an ontological prescription of how to be and how to live. · Cultural worldviews as immortality
ideologies.· Culture and the need for a world of meaning in which to act.· Cultural trauma and
indigenous people.· Constructing situations that optimize the potential for positive
intercultural interaction.· Anxiety and the Human Condition.· Anxiety and Self Esteem.· Culture
and Human Needs.A Psychology of Culture takes an uncommon tour of the human condition of
interest to clinicians  educators  and practitioners  students of culture and its role and
effects in human life  and students in nursing  medicine  anthropology  social work  family
studies  sociology  counseling  and psychology. It is especially suitable as a graduate text.

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