Alex Inkeles

National Character

A Psycho-Social Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

Alex Inkeles surveys various definitions of national character, tracing developments through the twentieth century. His approach is to examine the regularity of specific personality patterns among individuals in a society

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9781560002604
• ISBN-10: 1560002603
• Artikelnr.: 21465311

Autorenporträt

Alex Inkeles

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I-General Orientation
1 National Character: The Study of Modal Personality and Sociocultural
Systems
Part II-Delineating National Character:German, Russian, American
2 On the German "Mind"
3 Modal Personality and Adjustment to the Soviet Sociopolitical System
4 Continuity and Change in the American National Character
Part III-National Character in Relation to Stability and Change in
Sociocultural Systems
5 The Interaction of the Personal and the Sociocultural Systems
6 National Character and Modern Political Systems
7 Rising Expectations: Revolution, Evolution, or Devolution?
Part IV-Multi-Nation Comparisons
8 National Differences in Individual Modernity
9 Personal Development and National Development:A Cross-National
Perspective
10 Industrialization, Modernization, and The Quality of Life
11 National Character Revisited
Index