American Cultural Patterns

Author : Edward C. Stewart,Milton J. Bennett
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780983955832

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American Cultural Patterns by Edward C. Stewart,Milton J. Bennett Pdf

A fully revised edition of the seminal classic This classic study was originally written by Edward Stewart in 1972 and has become a seminal work in the field of intercultural relations. In this edition, Stewart and Milton J. Bennett have greatly expanded the analysis of American cultural patterns by introducing new cross-cultural comparisons and drawing on recent reseach on value systems, perception psychology, cultural anthropology, and intercultural communication. Beginning with a discussion of the issues relative to contact between people of different cultures, the authors examine the nature of cultural assumptions and values as a framework for cross-cultural analysis. They then analyze the human perceptual process, consider the influence of language on culture, and discuss nonverbal behavior. Central to the book is an analysis of American culture constructed along four dimentions: form of activity, form of social relations, perceptions of the world, and perception of the self. American cultural traits are isolated out, analyzed, and compared with parallel characteristics of other cultures. Finally, the cultural dimentions of communication and their implications for cross-cultural interaction are examined.

Author : Dan Rose
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512809626

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Patterns of American Culture by Dan Rose Pdf

Dan Rose has explored the American status system for decades. His ethnographic research into black South Philadelphia, the business community of Hazleton Pennsylvania, and the large horse farms of Chester County Pennsylvania is drawn together here to examine the cultural forms that shape American life at every level. In Patterns of American Culture, Rose draws on the fact and metaphor of colonization to demonstrate that the central motive in the contemporary United States has been and continues to be the corporate form. He begins by considering our origins as a collection of colonies, each of which was constructed as a private corporation whose purpose was to make money for its investors by providing new goods and different markets for England. Rose contends that the structure underlying American life are still corporate and that their purpose is to create new resources, new products, new landscapes, new ideas, and new markets. Today, most Americans have multiple corporate memberships—in city and state governments, in the businesses that employ them, in professional organizations or unions, and in various civic and political associations. Further, through written rules and unwritten customs, these corporations determine who we are and what we can do. Patterns of American Culture is a scholarly and poetic pursuit of the concealed energies within this vast incorporation and an analysis of how it shapes society and the lives of individuals. Rose draws from poems by Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams and brings ideas from such sources as performance art and cultural theory to critique this pervasive institutional order. The book closes with a fable of life in a fictitious capitalist society that both comments on ethnographic practice and reveals the disturbing estrangement inherent in any study of this type of culture. This narrative ethnography will interest scholars and students of American studies, anthropology, English, folklore, and sociology, and members of the design professions, such as architecture, landscape, and urban design.

Author : Larry Naylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313029585

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American Culture by Larry Naylor Pdf

America, like other modern nations, is characterized by its diversity and can be seen as a complex and fragmented nation-state. Yet an American culture defined by those beliefs, and behaviors that all Americans do share, irrespective of their other cultural affiliations, does exist. This book presents an innovative approach to the issues and aspects in the study of America's unique culture. The real diversity of America is lost in the practice of categorizing people into social (racial or ethnic) groups and then attributing culture to them. While not an exhaustive treatment of the culture, this volume serves as a point of departure for discussions of American culture in a variety of courses both within and outside the discipline of anthropology. Each chapter is accompanied by suggested readings to enable the student to pursue a more in-depth study of any individual topic.

Author : Susan Hegeman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400823222

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Patterns for America by Susan Hegeman Pdf

In recent decades, historians and social theorists have given much thought to the concept of "culture," its origins in Western thought, and its usefulness for social analysis. In this book, Susan Hegeman focuses on the term's history in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. She shows how, during this period, the term "culture" changed from being a technical term associated primarily with anthropology into a term of popular usage. She shows the connections between this movement of "culture" into the mainstream and the emergence of a distinctive "American culture," with its own patterns, values, and beliefs. Hegeman points to the significant similarities between the conceptions of culture produced by anthropologists Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, and a diversity of other intellectuals, including Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Dwight Macdonald. Hegeman reveals how relativist anthropological ideas of human culture--which stressed the distance between modern centers and "primitive" peripheries--came into alliance with the evaluating judgments of artists and critics. This anthropological conception provided a spatial awareness that helped develop the notion of a specifically American "culture." She also shows the connections between this new view of "culture" and the artistic work of the period by, among others, Sherwood Anderson, Jean Toomer, Thomas Hart Benton, Nathanael West, and James Agee and depicts in a new way the richness and complexity of the modernist milieu in the United States.

Author : Judith R. Blau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521437938

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The Shape of Culture by Judith R. Blau Pdf

This book systematically examines prevailing cultural patterns in contemporary American society. Using information on several thousands of cultural organisations, including elite ones (such as opera and chamber music companies) and popular cultural ones (such as cinemas and live rock concerts), Professor Blau examines the geography of culture, the changing demands for culture, the interdependencies among cultural organisations of different kinds, the nature of labour markets for artists, and the effects of arts subsidies on nonprofit cultural establishments over a ten year period. One of the major conclusions of the book is that the social conditions that support elite and popular culture are increasingly similar over time.

Author : Dan Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:475328752

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Patterns of American Culture by Dan Rose Pdf

Author : John R. Wunder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135631260

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Native American Cultural and Religious Freedoms by John R. Wunder Pdf

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Antje Dallmann,Eva Boesenberg,Martin Klepper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317227748

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Approaches to American Cultural Studies by Antje Dallmann,Eva Boesenberg,Martin Klepper Pdf

Approaches to American Cultural Studies provides an accessible yet comprehensive overview of the diverse range of subjects encompassed within American Studies, familiarising students with the history and shape of American Studies as an academic subject as well as its key theories, methods, and concepts. Written and edited by an international team of authors based primarily in Europe, the book is divided into four thematically-organised sections. The first part delineates the evolution of American Studies over the course of the twentieth century, the second elaborates on how American Studies as a field is positioned within the wider humanities, and the third inspects and deconstructs popular tropes such as myths of the West, the self-made man, Manifest Destiny, and representations of the President of the United States. The fourth part introduces theories of society such as structuralism and deconstruction, queer and transgender theories, border and hemispheric studies, and critical race theory that are particularly influential within American Studies. This book is supplemented by a companion website offering further material for study (www.routledge.com/cw/dallmann). Specifically designed for use on courses across Europe, it is a clear and engaging introductory text for students of American culture.

Author : George Spindler Stanford University, USA; Louise Spindler Stanford University, USA; Henry Trueba University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Melvin D. Williams University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134078776

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The American Cultural Dialogue And Its Transmission by George Spindler Stanford University, USA; Louise Spindler Stanford University, USA; Henry Trueba University of California, Santa Barbara, USA; Melvin D. Williams University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Pdf

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134078707

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The American Cultural Dialogue And Its Transmission by Anonim Pdf

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Robert T. Carter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761905499

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Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations by Robert T. Carter Pdf

Addressing Cultural Issues in Organizations provides conceptual models and practical approaches to organizational interventions which take account of cultural difference.

Author : Neil Campbell,Alasdair Kean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317297307

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American Cultural Studies by Neil Campbell,Alasdair Kean Pdf

Exploring the central themes in modern American cultural studies and discussing how these themes can be interpreted, American Cultural Studies offers a wide-ranging overview of different aspects of American cultural life such as religion, gender and sexuality, regionalism, and ethnicity and immigration. The fourth edition has been revised throughout to take into account the developments of the last four years. Updates and revisions include: discussion of Barack Obama’s time in the White House consideration of ‘Hemispheric American Studies’ and the increasing debates about globalisation and the international role of the USA long-form television and American Studies up-to-date case studies, such as Girls, The Wire and Orange is the New Black more material on Detroit, the Mexican border, same-sex relationships and Islam in America updated further reading lists and new follow-up work. Illustrated throughout, containing follow-up questions and further reading at the end of each chapter, and accompanied by a companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/campbell) providing further study resources, American Cultural Studies is a core text and an accessible guide to the interdisciplinary study of American culture.

Author : Scott C. Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742527719

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Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America, 1789-1860 by Scott C. Martin Pdf

In this exciting new work, Scott C. Martin brings together cutting-edge scholarship and articles from diverse sources to explore the cultural dimensions of the market revolution in America. By reflecting on the reciprocal relationship between cultural and economic change, the work deepens our understanding of American society during the turbulent early nineteenth century.

Author : David Murray
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0859894045

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American Cultural Critics by David Murray Pdf

This collection of essays assesses the work of a number of American intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, F.O. Mathieson, Daniel Bell and Hannah Arendt, who have addressed issues of culture and its multifaceted relations to politics, history, sociology and literary criticism. Concentrating on writing since 1940, the essays examine the central themes of American postwar intellectual history, including the continuing reaction to (or against) modernity and technology, the legacies of Marxism and psychoanalysis, and the re-examination of American founding principles and figures in conservative or liberal terms.

Author : Philip Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521586348

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The New American Cultural Sociology by Philip Smith Pdf

American Cultural Sociology presents a serious challenge to British Cultural Studies and European grand theory alike. This exciting volume brings together sixteen seminal papers by leading figures in what is emerging as an important intellectual tradition. It places them in the context of related work in Sociology and other disciplines, exploring the connections between cultural sociology and different approaches, such as comparative and historical research, postmodernism, and symbolic interactionism. The book is divided into three sections: Culture as Text and Code, The Production and Reception of Culture, and Culture in Action. Each section contains edited contributions, both theoretical and empirical, addressing the key debates in cultural sociology, including the autonomy of culture, power and culture, structure and agency and how to conceptualise meaning.