| Description |
ix, 335 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-314) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Diverse Cultures, Diverse Psychologies -- Contrasting Conceptions of Folk Psychology -- Cultural Diversity -- Delineating the Domain of Folk Psychologies -- Sources of Evidence -- The Evolution of Folk Psychologies -- Reality: What objects and what relationships among objects truly exist in the universe rather than being just imaginary? -- Dimensions of Reality -- Reality and Cultural Change -- Knowing: How do people come to know what they know? -- Knowledge Processes and Sources -- Cultural Change and the State of Knowledge -- Cause: Why do things happen as they do? -- Aspects of Causality -- Cultural Change and Beliefs About Cause -- Competence: What constitutes competence, how are competencies identified, and what should be done about incompetence? -- Kinds of Competence -- Conceptions of Impairment -- Cultural Change and Competence -- Values: What distinctions do people draw between beautiful and ugly, good and bad, desirable and undesirable, proper and improper, efficient and inefficient? -- Types of Values in Folk Psychologies -- Values and Cultural Change -- Emotions: Are the same types of feelings found in all cultures, does the importance of different emotions vary across cultures, and what sorts of situations are expected to elicit different types of affect? -- The Universality of Emotions -- Learning Emotional Responses -- Event and Emotion Connections -- Emotions and Cultural Change -- Humor: What conditions and events are thought to be amusing or laughable, and why? -- Examples of Folk Humor -- Humor and Cultural Change. |
| Summary |
Thomas offers a framework for comparing the folk psychologies of different cultures in terms of a group's conception of reality, ways of knowing, causes of events, and rituals. Folk psychology refers to the set of beliefs shared by members of a group regarding how other people's minds work and about the beliefs that result from such a view of mental life. |
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Ethnopsychology.
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73.85 cultural psychology. (NL-LeOCL)077610873
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Ethnopsychology. (OCoLC)fst00916198
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Ethnopsychologie (DE-588)4188478-4
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Volkenpsychologie.
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Völkerpsychologie.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Thomas, R. Murray (Robert Murray), 1921- Folk psychologies across cultures. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2001 (OCoLC)604223611 |
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Online version: Thomas, R. Murray (Robert Murray), 1921- Folk psychologies across cultures. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2001 (OCoLC)605461196 |
| ISBN |
0761924590 |
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9780761924593 |
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0761924604 |
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9780761924609 |
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