Personality And Place In Russian Culture

Author : Simon Dixon
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781907322037

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Personality and Place in Russian Culture by Simon Dixon Pdf

Lindsey Hughes (1949-2007) made her reputation as one of the foremost historians of the age of Peter the Great by revealing the more freakish aspects of the tsar's complex mind and reconstructing the various physical environments in which he lived. Contributors to Personality and Place in Russian Culture were encouraged to develop any of the approaches featured in Hughes's work: pointillist and panoramic, playful and morbid, quotidian and bizarre. The result is a rich and original collection, ranging from the sixteenth century to the present day, in which a group of leading international scholars explore the role of the individual in Russian culture, the myriad variety of individual lives, and the changing meanings invested in particular places. The editor, Simon Dixon, is Sir Bernard Pares Professor of Russian History at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

Author : Simon Dixon,Lindsey Hughes
Publisher : Legenda
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1907322027

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Personality and Place in Russian Culture by Simon Dixon,Lindsey Hughes Pdf

Author : Yale Richmond
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : National characteristics, Russian
ISBN : 1877864161

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From Nyet to Da by Yale Richmond Pdf

From Nyet to Da enlightens readers about virtually every aspect of Russian life. - Increase in contact between Russians and Westerners. As interactions multiply, so does the need to understand what drives Russian behaviour and what skills are needed to communicate effectively. From Nyet to Da covers social and interpersonal skills, as well as the underlying cultural assumptions and values of the Russian people. - Written for anyone engaged in transactions with Russians. s: business executives, educators, students, governmental or non-governmental officials; anyone with an interest in understanding more about Russians will gain new insights from this sympathetic yet even-handed treatment of the Russian people. The text is enlivened with entertaining anecdotes, colourful proverbs and insightful quotes from other scholars. - Five major sections help to define the Russian culture.: Geography and Culture places Russian culture in the framework of the geographic and historical forces that have shaped it; Culture and Character describes the Russian personality: State and Society explains the post-Soviet sociopolitical system; Personal Encounters identifies key behaviour patterns a visitor will encounter; and Negotiating with Russians provides a guide to negotiating a joint venture or a new contract.

Author : Robert Collis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004224391

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The Petrine Instauration by Robert Collis Pdf

Drawing on recent scholarship on the history of Western esotericism and religious studies on the importance of millenarian thought in Early Modern Europe, this study provides an innovative re-examination of Peter the Great’s Court in early eighteenth-century Russia.

Author : Edward Sapir
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520055942

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Culture, Language and Personality by Edward Sapir Pdf

"For sheer brilliance Edward Sapir is unsurpassed by any American anthropologist, living or dead."—Cylde Kluckhohn, Harvard University

Author : Edward Sapir
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0520011155

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Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality by Edward Sapir Pdf

Sapir was skillfull at analyzing unwritten languages on the basis of his own fieldwork. He contributed significantly to the mapping of languages and cultures of native America.

Author : A. Timothy Church Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 935 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9798216131519

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The Praeger Handbook of Personality across Cultures by A. Timothy Church Ph.D. Pdf

This important multivolume work sheds light on current—and future—research on cultural universals and differences in personality in their evolutionary, ecological, and cultural contexts. How does culture impact personality traits? To answer that question, the three volumes in this set address current theory and research on culture and personality in an effort to determine how people differ—and how they are alike. Detailed chapters by scholars from around the world unveil a fascinating picture of the relationship between culture and important aspects of personality. They also address the accuracy or meaningfulness of trait comparisons across cultures and the methods and limitations of research on the subject. As most psychological research is conducted on participants from Western industrialized countries, a work that includes a wide range of cultures not only fosters a more complete understanding of human personality, but also broadens perspectives on value systems and ways to live. Each of the three volumes concentrates on distinct areas of research, exposing the reader to the diverse theoretical and empirical approaches and topics in the field. Volume 1 focuses on the cross-cultural study of personality dispositions or traits. Volume 2 examines the relationship between culture and other important aspects of personality, including the self, emotions, motives, values, beliefs, and life narratives, as well as aspects of personality and adjustment associated with biculturalism and intercultural competence. Volume 3 looks at evolutionary, genetic, and neuroscience perspectives on personality across cultures along with ecological and cultural influences. In addition to providing readers with a thorough analysis of current and future directions for research, this unrivaled work brings together multiple perspectives on personality across cultures, thereby promoting a more integrative understanding of this important topic.

Author : Coulacoglou Carina
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780398085780

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Exploring the Child's Personality by Coulacoglou Carina Pdf

The objective of this book is to provide readers with a comprehensive account of the childOCOs personality. The book examines in detail significant personality dimensions from developmental, clinical and cross-cultural perspectives. The intricacies of personality are exposed by means of the Fairy Tale Test, an instrument that attempts to track the preconscious and unconscious processes that OC conspireOCO beneath the behavioral and overt manifestations of personality. ChildrenOCOs responses to the FTT questions are assessed both from a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. Twenty-nine personality variables are used to rate the broad range of personality characteristics. No other personality test assesses such a large number of personality parameters. The qualitative evaluation of responses includes the analysis of 14 defense mechanisms, the study of the nature of anxiety, family dynamics, and the examination of ego integration and ego strength. The unique quality of this book is the use of the FTT in the exploration of the childOCOs personality, using large samples of children derived from diverse cultures. Additional advantages of this book are the chapters which focus on the research into two significant personality traits: aggression and ambivalence and the chapter on the analysis of idiosyncratic responses; the latter offers valuable information in the classification of original responses into levels of psychopathology. While the FTT has taken significant steps towards becoming a valid and reliable instrument, studies of its psychometric properties are an ongoing process. The book also includes examples, case studies and appendices for further study and review."

Author : Margaret Mead,John Rickman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 157181230X

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Russian Culture by Margaret Mead,John Rickman Pdf

This volume brings together two classic works on the culture of the Russian people which have been long out of print. Gorer's Great Russian Culture and Mead's Soviet Attitudes towards Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character were among the first attempts by anthropologists to analyze Russian society. They were influential both for several generations of anthropologists and in shaping American governmental attitudes toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War period. Additionally they offer fascinating insights into the early anthropological use of psychological data to analyze cultural patterns. Read as part of the history of the anthropology of complex contemporary societies, they are as fascinating for their more questionable conclusions as for their accurate characterizations of Russian life.

Author : Robert R. McCrae,Juri Allik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461507635

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The Five-Factor Model of Personality Across Cultures by Robert R. McCrae,Juri Allik Pdf

The Five-Factor Model Across Cultures was designed to further an understanding of the interrelations between personality and culture by examining the dominant paradigm for personality assessment - the Five-Factor Model or FFM - in a wide variety of cultural contexts. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and theory about personality traits and culture that is extremely relevant to personality psychologists, cross-cultural psychologists, and psychological anthropologists.

Author : Catriona Kelly,David G. Shepherd
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040152822

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Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution, 1881-1940 by Catriona Kelly,David G. Shepherd Pdf

IConstructing Russian Culture offers a pioneering new account of the relationship between literature and other cultural forms in Late Imperial Russia and Revolutionary Russia. The general consensus in Western study of Russia and the Soviet Union has been that understanding of `historical background' is essential to the study of `literature'. But this consensus has so far failed to produce sophisticated overviews of the culture as a whole; literary histories seldom venture outside a rigid canon of authors and literary groupings, and the account of `historical background' sometimes amount to little more than a listing of certain predictable political and social factors that can be perceived to have `influenced' (or impeded) literary developments. This book is an ambitious attempt to recontextualize Russian literature, and rethink the relations between literature and other cultural forms. The book examines a number of, in Bourdieu's term `cultural fields' in late Imperial Russia: science and objectivity; national and personal identity; consumerism and commercial culture. There is also a `keywords' introduction explaining the evolution of concepts of the self, the nation, and `literariness' in Russian culture, and an `Epilogue' outlining the further history of the central themes after 1917. Contributors include leading specialists in Russian literature, cultural history, and cultural theory from Britain, the USA, and Russia. Intended as a companion to Russian Cultural Studies: An Introduction (also OUP), this stimulating, original, and controversial book will be a vital resource for all those interested in Russian culture during `the age of Revolution'.

Author : Polly Jones
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781889107

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Writing Russian Lives by Polly Jones Pdf

Like many genres, biography came belatedly to Russia. As with other such late arrivals, biography underwent intensive growth in quantity, sophistication, cultural significance and popularity from the era of Nicholas I onwards. It stands today as a dominant force in post-Soviet publishing. Yet studies of Russian biography’s poetics and its role as a literary and cultural institution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries remain thin on the ground, a fact often lamented, yet not fully addressed, in the scattered writings on the subject. The present volume examines modern Russian biography as a literary form, a publishing phenomenon and a cultural force that reveals and contests hegemonic ideas of the role of the individual in society, and of the make-up of the human personality itself.

Author : Angela Brintlinger,Ilya Vinitsky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487510688

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Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture by Angela Brintlinger,Ilya Vinitsky Pdf

The problem of madness has preoccupied Russian thinkers since the beginning of Russia's troubled history and has been dealt with repeatedly in literature, art, film, and opera, as well as medical, political, and philosophical essays. Madness has been treated not only as a medical or psychological matter, but also as a metaphysical one, encompassing problems of suffering, imagination, history, sex, social and world order, evil, retribution, death, and the afterlife. Madness and the Mad in Russian Culture represents a joint effort by American, British, and Russian scholars - historians, literary scholars, sociologists, cultural theorists, and philosophers - to understand the rich history of madness in the political, literary, and cultural spheres of Russia. Editors Angela Brintlinger and Ilya Vinitsky have brought together essays that cover over 250 years and address a wide variety of ideas related to madness - from the involvement of state and social structures in questions of mental health, to the attitudes of major Russian authors and cultural figures towards insanity and how those attitudes both shape and are shaped by the history, culture, and politics of Russia.

Author : Alexander Vucinich
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 0804707383

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Science in Russian Culture, 1861-1917 by Alexander Vucinich Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789205985

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Russian Culture by Margaret Mead Pdf

This volume brings together two classic works on the culture of the Russian people which have been long out of print. Gorer's Great Russian Culture and Mead's Soviet Attitudes towards Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character were among the first attempts by anthropologists to analyze Russian society. They were influential both for several generations of anthropologists and in shaping American governmental attitudes toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War period. Additionally they offer fascinating insights into the early anthropological use of psychological data to analyze cultural patterns. Read as part of the history of the anthropology of complex contemporary societies, they are as fascinating for their more questionable conclusions as for their accurate characterizations of Russian life.