The purpose of this volume is to provide teachers, students, scholars, and professional practitioners with a comprehensive resource for understanding the reciprocal relationships between culture and self in western and Asian thought and the implications these relationships have for human adaptation and adjustment. All of the chapters proceed from the premise that the self is a necessary construct for explaining those emergent qualities of human behavior that proceed from person-context relationships; it is these qualities that are most associated with meaning, consciousness, and knowing in human experience. In illuminating the relationships between culture and self in Western and Asian thought, the chapters discuss both historical and contemporary concepts in the scholarly literature. Readers will find the chapters a fascinating journey across time and culture in the search for understanding the roots of human behavior.
Author(s): George A. De Vos; Francis L. K. Hsu; Anthony J. Marsella
Series: Social science paperbacks
Publisher: Tavistock Publications
Year: 1985
Language: English
City: New York
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1 - Introduction and Foundations
1 - Introduction: Approaches to Culture and Self
2 - The Self in Cross-cultural Perspective
3 - The Metaphorical Basis of Selfhood
Part 2 - Western Perspectives on Self
4 - The Western Concept of Self
Part 3 - Asian Perspectives on Self
5 - Dimensions of the Self in Japanese Culture
6 - The Self in Hindu Thought and Action
7 - Selfhood and Otherness in Confucian Thought
8 - The Changing Concept of Self in Contemporary China
Part 4 - The Self, Adaptation, and Adjustment
9 - Culture, Self, and Mental Disorder
Author Index
Subject Index
