Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Towards a New Psychology of Culture -- 1: Understanding Culture -- Cultural Confrontations -- Persistent practices -- Misconceptions of Culture -- The improper use of culture as a label -- The improper use of culture as a metaphor -- The improper use of culture as an excuse -- Beyond Homo Clausus -- Five Key Domains of Patterned Behavior -- Real People in Real Groups -- In Search of a Psychological Perspective on Culture -- References -- 2: Inventing Culture Theory -- Early Cultural Confrontations -- Later Developments -- National Accents -- The French -- The British -- The Germans -- Culture science and biology in deadlock -- Culture as Salutary Superstition -- Persistent Patterns and Biology -- Beyond Biologism and Culturalism: Organisms in the Plural -- "Reclaiming the social" -- Biological Affordances of Meaning -- Reconciling cultural and biological meanings in practice -- Persistent behavioral patterns in a new environment -- Training and practice -- References -- 3: A Psychological Perspective on Culture -- Crucial Cognitive Capacities -- Meaning and Normativity -- Norms and Values Revisited -- The Body in Two Variations -- Body 1 and body 2 -- Bodily practices -- The Social Form of Feelings and Emotions -- A feeling for . . . -- The sensorium -- The Intrinsic Social Group -- Belonging on the basis of agreement -- Belonging on the basis of conventions -- Belonging on the basis of arrangements -- Articulation and involvement -- Group without force -- Authentication and normativity -- The Automaticity of Everyday Life -- A Psychological Perspective on Culture -- References -- Part Two: Sex, Status, Age, Ethnicity, and Faith -- 4: Sex: The Shaping of Sex and Gender -- Sexutopia No Go -- Asymmetry and Dominance -- The caring role.

Worldwide research into dominance and asymmetry -- Arranged male dominance -- The Problematic Public Side of Sex -- Ritualization of Sex and Gender -- The Science of Sex -- Denial of the Flesh -- The Western Marriage Arrangement -- The Education of the Senses -- Alternative styling of love and sex -- References -- 5: Status: The Body of Class and Organized Compliance -- Class Revisited -- Demarcation of an Underclass -- High versus Low -- Habitus -- The body of class -- The ethnic body -- Fit and misfit -- The Non-Debate of Structure versus Culture -- Body and Language -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Age: The Optimal Balance of Love and Challenge -- Body and Affect -- The De-particularization of the Body -- Including the Young in the Order of Adults: Attachment and Stimulation -- Attachment -- The stimulation optimum -- The Cultural Framing of Closeness and Distance -- Attachment and the framing of feeling -- Talent and Motivation -- IQ in society -- Motivation is crucial -- The hardships of measurement -- References -- 7: Ethnicity: Cultural Arrests and Bicultural Competence -- Integration is not an All or Nothing Process -- Material goods and welfare -- Participation in institutions -- Participation in arrangements -- Cultural Arrests -- Bicultural Competence -- Bicultural competence in research -- Gut feelings in action -- Integration Policy Revisited -- References -- 8: Faith: Religion as a Man-made Order -- A Behavioral Scientific Approach to Religion -- Religious belief as a special case of believing in general -- Belief without any evidence -- Why is Religion so Persistent? -- Consolation -- Empowerment -- Sense and direction -- Depth and mystery -- Redemption, salvation, and promise -- Remembering the futility of being human -- Human bonding and sense of community -- Morals -- Legitimating and justification.

Religion as a source of identity -- Proto-science -- Reflection on humans -- Criticism and Resilience -- Opium of the people -- Religion as wish fulfillment -- Utopia -- Criticizing the binding power of religion -- Criticizing religion as the source of morality -- The source of meaning -- Legitimizing male dominance -- Status -- Religious pugnacity -- Religion Revisited -- A biological explanation of religion -- Pressure and control -- Conclusion -- References -- Part Three: Psychology and Globalization -- 9: A Psychology of Globalization -- Behavioral Globalization -- A Separation -- Behavioral globalization is not necessarily Westernization -- Ecological Conditions for Civilization -- The continent's position on mild latitudes -- A Further Head Start for Europe in Particular -- Diversity -- Division by faith -- Fighting patrimonialism -- Archaic and Early Modern Globalization -- Religious convergence -- Improved living conditions -- Appealing Applications in the Western Civilizing Offensive After 1800 -- The Appeal of the Western Way of Life -- Modernization without conversion -- Inclusion of previously excluded groups -- The chance to shape one's own experiences -- A Positive Agenda -- The Behavioral Impact of the Enlightenment -- The Enlightenment project in two variants -- The "Radical Enlightenment" -- Not radical but practical science has brought the good life to many -- References -- 10: Epilogue -- Reference -- Bibliographical Essay -- Chapter 1 Understanding Culture -- Chapter 2 Inventing Culture Theory -- Chapter 3 A Psychological Perspective on Culture -- Chapter 4 Sex: The Shaping of Sex and Gender -- Chapter 5 Status: The Body of Class and Organized Compliance -- Chapter 6 Age: The Optimal Balance of Love and Challenge -- Chapter 7 Ethnicity: Cultural Arrests and Bicultural Competence -- Chapter 8 Faith: Religion as Man-made Order.

Chapter 9 A Psychology of Globalization -- Chapter 10 Epilogue -- Index.