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A Study of Personal and Cultural Values : American, Japanese, and Vietnamese /

This study analyzes American, Vietnamese and Japanese personal values, attempting to understand how it can be ethnographers find large differences in values between cultures, yet empirical surveys find relatively small, almost trivial differences in personal values between cultures.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: D'Andrade, Roy (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Series:Culture, Mind, and Society, The Book Series of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Ethnography.
Social Anthropology.
Sociology of Culture.
Sociology, general.
Ethnology.
Religion and culture.
Social sciences.
Sociology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:This study analyzes American, Vietnamese and Japanese personal values, attempting to understand how it can be ethnographers find large differences in values between cultures, yet empirical surveys find relatively small, almost trivial differences in personal values between cultures.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 173 pages)
ISBN:9780230612099
DOI:10.1057/9780230612099