Psychology of Culture: A Course of Lectures Book

	Acknowledgements
	Editor's Introduction	1
1	The Term "Culture": Three uses of the term; culture as selection and value	23
2	The Concept of Culture in the Social Sciences: "Cultural" vs. "social"; methodological and epistemological problems in the social sciences in general, and anthropology in particular	40
3	Causes of Culture: To what extent do factors such as race, geography, psychology, and economy influence cultural form?	64
4	Elements of Culture: The contents of culture: trait inventory vs. functional pattern	84
5	The Patterning of Culture: The configurative point of view; language as example of patterning; an ethnographic example: the Nootka topati - a concept of 'privilege'	103
6	The Development of Culture: Concepts of progress and change; technological, moral, and aesthetic processes; developmental cycles	124
7	Personality: The individual as bearer of culture; definitions of personality; the psychiatric approach	139
8	Psychological Types: A review and critique of Jung	152
9	Psychological Aspects of Culture: The difficulty of delimiting a boundary between personality and culture; attitudes, values, and symbolic structures as cultural patterns; culture as "as-if" psychology; a critique of Benedict and Mead	175
10	The Adjustment of the Individual in Society: Individual adjustment and neurosis; adjustment to changing social conditions; socialization; can there be a true science of man? the emergence of culture in interpersonal relations	191
11	The Concept of "Primitive Mentality": Critiques of Freud, Levy-Bruhl, and Malinowski; the importance of aesthetic imagination as the form-giver of culture	208
12	Symbolism: Types of symbols; symbols and signs; speech as a symbolic system; symbolism and social psychology; etiquette	219
13	The Impact of Culture on Personality: The field of "Culture and Personality"; concluding remarks	239
	References	247
	Index	254