Worlds of common sense equality, identity, and two modes of impulse management
Title:
Worlds of common sense equality, identity, and two modes of impulse management
Author:
Pepinsky, Pauline Nichols.
ISBN:
9780313030994
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 214 p.) : ill.
Series:
Contributions in psychology, no. 26
Contributions in psychology.
Contents:
1. Introduction and Overview: Linking Self and Society in Belief and Action -- 2. Alternative Definitions of Equality -- 3. Alternative Threats to Personal Identity: Discovery and Anonymity -- 4. The Management of Impulse and Two Normalizing Modes of Action -- 5. Modal Variations and Immanent Definitions of Deviance -- 6. Mixed Modes of the Sixties: Making and Remaking the American Scene -- 7. The Shaping of Change and the Process of Modal Symbiosis -- 8. Norway in the Eighties: The Oil Era and Its Aftermath -- 9. Cross-Cultural Implications -- 10. Summing Up and Looking Ahead.
Abstract:
This book explores the construction and maintenance of alternative worlds of common sense. Employing a comparative approach, Dr. Pepinsky monitors events in Norway and the United States over several decades, treating these countries as prototypes of societies that are classifiable as modern Western democracies, but which exhibit marked contrasts in size and cultural homogeneity. She examines the conditions under which different social realities are generated, the assumptions that they presuppose, and the practices that sustain them. She then goes on to analyze the methods by which continuity i.
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