Culture in Action: Family Life, Emotion, and Male Dominance in Banaras, IndiaState University of New York Press, 1995 M07 1 - 232 pages In Culture in Action Derne explores the interconnections between male dominance, joint-family living, Indian emotional life, and a cultural focus on group pressures. Derne emphasizes the Hindu focus on the social group, but shows that men often distance themselves from group culture by marrying for love, separating from their parents, or embracing closeness with their wives. Derne's suggestion that Indian men's cultural focus on the group limits men's and women's strategies for breaking cultural norms offers a new approach to understanding how culture constrains. He shows how the child-rearing practices and emotional tensions associated with joint-family living shape Indians' group emphasis. This approach suggests that the Hindu focus on the group is intimately connected with male dominance. |
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... argue , for instance , that the " sociology of knowledge " must focus on " what people ' know ' as ' reality ' in their everyday " lives because these com- monsense notions constitute " the fabric of meanings without which no society ...
... argue , for instance , that the " sociology of knowledge " must focus on " what people ' know ' as ' reality ' in their everyday " lives because these com- monsense notions constitute " the fabric of meanings without which no society ...
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... argue that a focus on the culture of the powerful is central to understanding the social construction of gen- der . I pursue the following sorts of questions : How do men use a gender ideology in their own interests ? How is a ...
... argue that a focus on the culture of the powerful is central to understanding the social construction of gen- der . I pursue the following sorts of questions : How do men use a gender ideology in their own interests ? How is a ...
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... argues , culture is the " lens " through which people see the world . CULTURAL COMPONENTS Culture is an apparatus for understanding , which includes two important elements . First , culture includes the cultural components of what Ann ...
... argues , culture is the " lens " through which people see the world . CULTURAL COMPONENTS Culture is an apparatus for understanding , which includes two important elements . First , culture includes the cultural components of what Ann ...
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... argues that in the Protestant West action is " assumed to depend on the choices of individual persons " ( see also ... argue that frameworks for understanding action are a particularly 10 CULTURE IN ACTION.
... argues that in the Protestant West action is " assumed to depend on the choices of individual persons " ( see also ... argue that frameworks for understanding action are a particularly 10 CULTURE IN ACTION.
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... argue that frameworks for understanding action are a particularly constraining element of culture , which limit the strategies individuals can use , even when they act unconventionally . The constraining power of social frameworks for ...
... argue that frameworks for understanding action are a particularly constraining element of culture , which limit the strategies individuals can use , even when they act unconventionally . The constraining power of social frameworks for ...
Contents
True Believers Cowed Conformers | 105 |
Family Structure Ethnopsychology | 155 |
Fieldwork in Urban India | 175 |
Notes | 181 |
Bibliography | 199 |
Index | 221 |
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