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Title: Exploring Borders: Understanding Culture and Psychology
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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| Exploring Borders: Understanding Culture and Psychology by Routledge password:culture | | While reading this book, I thought it was accomplishing in its very substance what it was saying with its words. As I expected from a book on culture, it provides examples ranging from western to eastern societies, from contemporary episodes to past ones. The ability to find examples from different fields and to connect them to the central topic makes the point of the tremendous consequentiality of cultural issues. At the same time it refrains from generalizations, highlighting the serious dilemmas in which cultural encounters engage us. It is a committed tour throughout various themes of a cultural perspective in both everyday puzzlements and major events covered in the media. For this reasons and for the style of its writing it comes as a pleasant and compelling reading. The general approach relies on socio-constructionism and cultural psychology, which are part of the very new trends in talking about culture. If you are looking for an introduction to cultural issues in social sciences this book offers a fresh repertoire of relevant cases together with sketched references to some of the among the most appreciated theoretical frameworks in current research. | | Exploring Borders: Understanding Culture and Psychology by Routledge Product Description | In Exploring Borders, Giuseppe Mantovani highlights and explores the ways in which culture acts as framework organising our experience. He emphasises the differences across and between cultures and examines the depths to which these can go. He also analyses the functions of culture, including: mediation, meaning-making, and forming a repertory of values and principles. Finally, he considers some of the challenges raised by taking a cultural perspective and examines how these may be addressed in society.
This highly original and eminently readable narrative will be invaluable to scholars of psychology, media and cultural studies, and to all those fascinated by culture and eager to make the cultural dimension visible to all. |
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