Basic Dimensions in Conscious Thought The Self and Socialization of Human Concerns

by Vos, De George A.; Vos, De Eric S.

• ISBN13: 9780742500020
• ISBN10: 0742500020
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-12
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Describes an empirically validated method for analyzing the thematic content of narratives as a tool for comparative research in Anthropology, Cultural Psychology and Ethnopsychiatry.

Table of Contents

Volume I
Part I
Preface	ix
Volume I:
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction The Thematic Apperception Test in Social Sciences Research: Historical and Methodological Considerations	1	(34)
Chapter 1 The Self in Society: Theoretical Perspectives on Social Construction and Conscious Experience	35	(20)
Part II
Chapter 2 Basic Dimensions in Conscious Thought: Categories Studied in the Present Volume	55	(32)
Chapter 3 The Many Faces of Pain and Pleasure: The Emotive Self	87	(34)
Chapter 4 Motives to Give, Succor, and Protect: The Fulfillment of Insufficiency and Dependency	121	(36)
Chapter 5 Resonance, Closeness, and Communication: Affiliative Concerns in Human Relationships	157	(34)
Chapter 6 Esteem: Evaluative Concerns with Social Acceptability	191	(34)
Chapter 7 Harmony Versus Discord: Humans as Socially Accommodative Animals	225	(28)
Chapter 8 Achievement as a Will to Accomplish: A Sense of Purpose in Human Life	253	(24)
Chapter 9 Competence and Mastery	277	(26)
Chapter 10 Status Inequality and Patterns of Social Control	303	(36)
Chapter 11 Responsibility: Human Potentials for Guilt	339	(36)
Chapter 12 Mutual Purpose: Patterns of Competition and Cooperation	375	(34)
Chapter 13 Human Concerns with Impersonal Forces and Inanimate Objects	409	(46)
Chapter 14 The Existential Self: Scoring Themes Pertaining to the Supernatural or Thoughts of Suicide	455	(38)
Index	493	(14)
Appendixes	507	(48)
About the Authors	555