Normative Cultures


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Normative Cultures


Normative Cultures
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Author : Robert Cummings Neville
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1995-08-17

Normative Cultures written by Robert Cummings Neville and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-08-17 with Philosophy categories.


The great civilizations of the world are very different from one another, indeed more strangely different the closer they come in economic, social, and cultural interaction. Yet each claims to be a normative way of being human. At the very minimum human achievement requires competence in the conventions of one's own civilization. To be human is to participate in a conventional culture, and the normatively human conventional cultures are different. Here is the "clash of civilizations": Without commitment to some conventions of civilized humanity, no one can be human; yet the conventions are different, perhaps even opposed. Two problems bring philosophy to the refiner's fire. How can we conceive of human culture across the differences of civilized cultures? This is a problem about the nature of theory itself. It calls for a new theory of theorizing that at once provides synoptic understanding and recognized differences and incommensurabilities. Many postmodern critics have thundered against theories that oppress by the value-laden bias of their own forms, and by the interest guiding their forms. Neville provides a theory of theories that responds to these challenges and addresses the problem of theorizing across different cultures. The other problem is how to exercise practical reason across cultures expressive of different civilizations. How can human beings be responsible in a world where all values seem culture-bound and the obvious solution seems to be moral relativism that trivializes responsibility? Neville presents a theory of practical reason oriented to objective norms determined cross-culturally and based on a Confucian sense of the ritual character of the most important levels of moral life. This book completes Neville's series, Axiology of Thinking, a trilogy of systematically related studies of valuation in four kinds of thinking: imagination, interpretation, theorizing, and the pursuit of responsibility. Reconstruction of Thinking and Recovery of the Measure, both published by SUNY Press, are companion volumes.



Normative Cultures


Normative Cultures
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Author : Robert C. Neville
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1995-08-17

Normative Cultures written by Robert C. Neville and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-08-17 with Philosophy categories.


This is a philosophic study of theory and practical reason focusing on social obligation and personal responsibility. It draws on Chinese as well as Western Traditions of philosophy.



What Are Norms


What Are Norms
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Author : Francesca M. Cancian
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1975-04-25

What Are Norms written by Francesca M. Cancian and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975-04-25 with Social Science categories.


What are Norms? challenges the traditional Parsonian theory of the basis of social order and proposes a theoretical perspective that emphasises shared definitions of reality rather than personal motivation. The book begins by describing conceptions of good and bad in a Maya community. Then it explores how such normative beliefs relate to the actions of individuals and the organisation of society. Parsons' theory is not supported by previous research on attitudes and behaviour. The final chapter describes a new theoretical approach to norms and society that provides a better explanation of how people's norms relate to their actions and how norms change.



Homo Juridicus


Homo Juridicus
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Author : Isaak Ismail Dore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016

Homo Juridicus written by Isaak Ismail Dore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Law categories.


Homo Juridicus focuses on the normative foundations underlying all socio-cultural formations. The book uses the concept of "normativity" in an inclusive sense. It includes law, but it is not limited to it. As such, it explores the various social and cultural forces that persuade, incite, seduce, influence, direct, restrain, repress or control behavior. It is a major interdisciplinary study cutting across several disciplines of social science, such as law, anthropology, sociology, psychology, linguistics and philosophy. Its primary audience is law students, as well as the scholarly community across law and the social sciences. "Isaak Dore is one of the very few scholars who straddles a broad range of legal and nonlegal disciplines. This important book deconstructs the idea of normativity in culture and illuminates it through various strains of thought in anthropology, sociology, psychology, linguistics and philosophy. Its grasp of these disciplines is impressive in terms of nuance, breadth, particularity and lucidity. It is a unique work, brilliantly executed, providing a rich background against which the promotion of social order through legal and nonlegal norms can be evaluated. It both provokes and compels one to think outside of the conventional structures and assumptions of law and social order. I know of no other work that offers the broad intellectual reach that this ambitious book presents." Laura S. Underkuffler J. DuPratt White Professor of Law Cornell Law School USA "Isaak Dore has developed a remarkably new and rich approach to the study of legal and nonlegal aspects of normative order in culture, a field of growing interest in Europe. The sheer range of disciplines drawn upon, as well as the provocative analyses will have wide appeal within the scholarly community." Hugues Kenfack Dean and Professor of Private Law Faculté de Droit et Science Politique Université de Toulouse Capitole France "Isaak Dore's book is an impressive accomplishment, systematically tracking anthropology from its early days to the contemporary period, from Spencer to post modernism and all the major schools of thought in between. Throughout, he adds important insights by uncovering and interrogating assumptions about law, social order, and normativity." Peter Wogan Professor Of Anthropology and Chairman Department Of Anthropology Willamette University USA



Legal Cultures And Human Rights


Legal Cultures And Human Rights
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Author : Kirsten Hastrup
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-04

Legal Cultures And Human Rights written by Kirsten Hastrup and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-04 with Law categories.


Cultural diversity, as expressed for instance in different normative orders or legal cultures, poses both a practical and a theoretical challenge to the idea of universal human rights. In the present volume, the authors seek to address and contain this challenge with a view to the changing nature of the global society. While 'culture' is sometimes signposted as an obstacle to human rights on the ground, this volume suggests that in so far as the global 'culture of human rights' is primarily seen as a formal and institutional order based on a particular view of equal human worth, local cultures cannot trump it. The main point is that the culture of human rights is inclusive of all and must maintain a standard by which all peoples and cultures can measure their own performances. Further, and as demonstrated in the present volume from a range of disciplines such as law, literature, history and anthropology, culture is not a mental prison but a particular outlook upon the world, for ever changing in response to new experiences and insights.



Cultural Normativity


Cultural Normativity
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Author : Maria Gołębiewska
language : en
Publisher: Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas
Release Date : 2017

Cultural Normativity written by Maria Gołębiewska and has been published by Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Culture categories.


This book presents the diverse profiles of cultural normativity: from philosophical theses, which systematise various definitions of normativity, the characteristics of cultural normativity and its relationships with ethics, to analyses of selected examples of social practices.



Histories Of The Normal And The Abnormal


Histories Of The Normal And The Abnormal
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Author : Waltraud Ernst
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-09-27

Histories Of The Normal And The Abnormal written by Waltraud Ernst and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-27 with History categories.


This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms 'normal' and 'abnormal'. Originally meaning 'as occurring in nature', normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas and this book recognizes and explores that fact. The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the abnormal from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines – ranging from art history to social history of medicine, literature, and science studies to sociology and cultural anthropology. The contributors use as their conceptual anchors the works of moral and political philosophers such as Canguilhem, Foucault and Hacking, as well as the ideas put forward by sociologists including Durkheim and Illich. With contributions from a range of scholars across differing disciplines, this book will have a broad appeal to students in many areas of history.



Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Shame


Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Shame
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Author : Cecilea Mun
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2019-10-09

Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Shame written by Cecilea Mun and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-09 with Philosophy categories.


This edited collection of interdisciplinary perspectives on shame provides insight into scholarly concerns regarding the appropriate methods for studying shame and the theories that they yield, as well as the import of shame to our self, others, and the community to which we belong.



Charles Peirce On Ethics Esthetics And The Normative Sciences


Charles Peirce On Ethics Esthetics And The Normative Sciences
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Author : James Jakób Liszka
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-25

Charles Peirce On Ethics Esthetics And The Normative Sciences written by James Jakób Liszka and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-25 with Philosophy categories.


This book presents a comprehensive and systematic picture of Charles Peirce’s ethics and aesthetics, arguing that Peirce established a normative framework for the study of right conduct and good ends. It also connects Peirce’s normative thought to contemporary debates in ethical theory. Peirce sought to articulate the relation among logic as right thinking, ethics as good conduct and, in an unorthodox sense of aesthetics, the pursuit of ends that are fine and worthy. Each plays an important role in ethical life. Once aesthetics has determined what makes an end worthy and admirable, and ethics determines which are good and right to pursue, logical and scientific reasoning is employed to figure the most likely means to attain those ends. Ethics does the additional duty of ensuring that the means conform to ideals of conduct. In the process, Peirce develops an interesting theory of moral motivation, an account of moral reasoning, moral truth, and a picture of what constitutes a moral community. Charles Peirce on Ethics, Esthetics and the Normative Sciences will be of interest to scholars and students working on Peirce, American philosophy, and metaethics.



Toward A Social Psychoanalysis


Toward A Social Psychoanalysis
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Author : Lynne Layton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-02-26

Toward A Social Psychoanalysis written by Lynne Layton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-26 with Psychology categories.


Frantz Fanon, Erich Fromm, Pierre Bourdieu, and Marie Langer are among those activists, clinicians, and academics who have called for a social psychoanalysis. For over thirty years, Lynne Layton has heeded this call and produced a body of work that examines unconscious process as it operates both in the social world and in the clinic. In this volume of Layton’s most important papers, she expands on earlier theorists’ ideas of social character by exploring how dominant ideologies and culturally mandated, hierarchical identity prescriptions are lived in individual and relational conflict. Through clinical and cultural examples, Layton describes how enactments of what she calls ‘normative unconscious processes’ reinforce cultural inequalities of race, sex, gender, and class both inside and outside the clinic, and at individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels. Clinicians, academics, and activists alike will find here a deeper understanding of the power of unconscious process, and are called on to envision and enact a progressive future in which vulnerability and interdependency are honored and systemic inequalities dismantled.