Overview
- Illustrates the possibilities for Pragmatic Critical Theory
- Describes the relevance of a psychodynamic perspective for the social sciences
- Shows what a return of Critical Theory to its social science roots can produce
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Pragmatism and Character
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The Evolution of Democratic Character and Culture
Keywords
- Alienation in Modern Society
- Critical Theory
- Democratic Culture and Personality
- Ensuring Personal Freedom
- Modernity
- Nationalism and Juvenile Delinquency
- Personal Relationships
- Personal and Impersonal Forms of Exploitation
- Post-Feudal American Society
- Pragmatism Basis of American Culture
- Psychology of Personality and of Personal Relationships
- Social Evolution
- The Self in Democratic Societies
- Understanding and Spreading Democracy
About this book
This book returns critical theory to its roots in both psychology and the social sciences. It shows some of the relationships between equality in a political and social sense and personal identity that either relates well to such equality, or rebels against it. All this reflects processes of social and cultural influence that involve not only random change but also processes of social and cultural evolution that themselves have effects regarding potentials for self-fulfillment and even public morality. This book provides a framework to help one study the interaction between individual aspirations and social opportunities.
Jerome Braun, known for his writings in interdisciplinary social science, an approach he calls pragmatic critical theory, here provides a book that discusses issues relevant to the moral underpinnings of democratic society, including issues of social evolution and of culture and personality.
This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Psychology (particularly in the areas of Psychology of Personality and Cultural Psychology), Sociology (especially those interested in Sociology of Alienation and Sociology of Culture, as well as Sociology of Mental Health), Anthropology (particularly in the area of Psychological Anthropology), Cultural Studies, and Social Theory in general.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Democratic Culture and Moral Character
Book Subtitle: A Study in Culture and Personality
Authors: Jerome Braun
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6754-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6753-9Published: 18 June 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9663-8Published: 14 July 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6754-6Published: 03 June 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 264
Topics: Sociology, general, Personality and Social Psychology, Anthropology, Social Sciences, general