The cultural transition : human experience and social transformation in the Third World and Japan / / edited by Merry I. White and Susan Pollak

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791881403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 1986, 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-91668-7; 1-136-91669-5; 1-283-03847-1; 9786613038470; 0-203-84394-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Collana: Routledge library editions: Japan ; ; 80
• Altri autori (Persone): PollakSusan; WhiteMerry I. <1941->
• Disciplina: 303.48
• Soggetti: Social change; Social role; Ethnopsychology; Educational anthropology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in 1986.
• Nota di contenuto: BOOK COVER; TITLE01; COPYRIGHT01; TITLE02; COPYRIGHT02; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON THE PROJECT ON HUMAN POTENTIAL; INTRODUCTION; PART I: PSYCHOLOGIES OF THE PERSON AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS FOR PERSONAL CHANGE; I: PSYCHOTHERAPY AND CULTURE: HEALING IN THE INDIAN TRADITION; II: SOURCE AND INFLUENCE: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO AFRICAN RELIGION AND CULTURE; III: HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION: PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY; IV: SOCIAL CHANGE AND PERSONAL CRISIS: A VIEW FROM AN INDIAN PRACTICE; PART II: SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTS FOR LEARNING; V: THE MAKING OF A FQIH: THE TRANSFORMATION OF TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC TEACHERS IN MODERN CULTURAL ADAPTATIONVI: CULTURAL CONTINUITY IN AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION: A CASE STUDY OF THE SUZUKI METHOD OF MUSIC INSTRUCTION; VII: LEARNING ELEMENTARY ; SCHOOL MATHEMATICS AS A CULTURALLY CONDITIONED PROCESS; PART III: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE LIFE COURSE; VIII: THE WORK OF MOURNING: DEATH IN A PUNJABI FAMILY; IX: 'HEART' AND SELF IN OLD AGE: A CHINESE MODEL; X: SKILLS AND LIFE STRATEGIES OF JAPANESE BUSINESS WOMEN; XI: SELFHOOD IN CONTEXT: SOME INDIAN SOLUTIONS; APPENDIX: PROJECT ON HUMAN POTENTIAL; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume makes available a wide variety of cultural perspectives on education and on economic and social progress. Contributors focus on three main questions, the answers to which are vital for understanding the needs of both national policy and personal fulfilment in widely differing cultures. The contributors examine the concept of the self that underlies the idea of virtue which facilitates learning in Japan, the Confucian-style bonding between generations in Chinese society and the authority of the traditional teacher with the modern Quaranic School. They study phenomena as diverse a