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The Culture of Conformism: Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers.
Drawing from an impressive array of sources, his valuable study advances both ends considerably, no mean accomplishment. Focusing in particular on Americans' acquiescence to a system that underpays and underrepresents the vast majority of the population, Hogan moves beyond typical studies of this phenomenon by stressing more than its political and economic dimensions.
With new insights into particularly insideous forms of consent such as those manifest in racism, sexism, and homophobia, The Culture of Conformism considers the role of emotion as it works in conjunction with belief and with the formation of group identity. Arguing that coercion is far more pervasive in democratic societies than is commonly recognized, Hogan discusses the subtle ways in which economic and social pressures operate to complement the more obviously violent forces of the police and military.
Addressing issues of narcissism, self-esteem, and empathy, he also explains the concept of "rational" conformity--that is, the degree to which our social consent is based on self-interest--and explores the cognitive factors that produce and sustain social ideology. Social activists, economic theorists, social psychologists, and political scientists will be intrigued and informed by this book.
Addressing issues of narcissism, self-esteem, and empathy, he also explains the concept of "rational" conformity-that is, the degree to which our social consent is based on self-interest-and explores the cognitive factors that produce and sustain social ideology. Developing this structure in relation to major texts by Derek Walcott, Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, Earl Lovelace, Buchi Emecheta, Rabindranath Tagore, and Attia Hosain, Hogan also provides crucial cultural background for understanding these and other works from the same traditions.
Clarendon Press, , p. In this wide-ranging and informative work, Patrick Colm Hogan draws on cognitive science, psychoanalysis, and social psychology to explore the cultural and psychological components of social consent. Ideology and Emotion Doi:. Paul Le Blanc , Left Americana: Conformity to the social order has proven perplexing to the most acute commentators on the human condition. Cognitive Structure and the Example of Racism Doi:.
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. The Mind and its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion. There are profound, extensive, and surprising universals in literature, which are bound up with universals in emotion.
Hogan maintains that debates over the cultural specificity of emotion are misdirected because they have ignored a vast body of data that bear directly on the way different cultures imagine and experience emotion - literature. This is the first empirically and cognitively based discussion of narrative universals.
The Culture of Conformism: Understanding Social Consent. Author(s): Patrick Colm Hogan: Published: April Pages: Illustrations: 2 figures. The Culture of ConformismUnderstanding Social Consent “[Hogan's] goal is not merely to explain but to provide tools of understanding that will be of practical .
Professor Hogan argues that, to a remarkable degree, the stories people admire in different cultures follow a limited number of patterns and that these patterns are determined by cross-culturally constant ideas about emotion. In formulating his argument, Professor Hogan draws on his extensive reading in world literature, experimental research treating emotion and emotion concepts, and methodological principles from the contemporary linguistics and the philosophy of science.
He concludes with a discussion of the relations among narrative, emotion concepts, and the biological and social components of emotion. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. For twenty years, Father Gregory Boyle has run Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention program located in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles—also known as the gang capital of the world. In Tattoos on the Heart, he has distilled his experience working in the ghetto into a breathtaking series of parables inspired by faith.
From ten-year-old Pipi you learn the importance of being known and acknowledged. From Lulu you come to understand the kind of patience necessary to rescue someone from the dark—as Father Boyle phrases it, we can only shine a flashlight on a light switch in a darkened room. This is a motivating look at how to stay faithful in spite of failure, how to meet the world with a loving heart, and how to conquer shame with boundless, restorative love.
Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists. The rise cognitive science has been one of the most important intellectual developments of recent years, stimulating new approaches to everything from philosophy to film studies.
This is an introduction to what cognitive science has to offer the humanities and particularly the study of literature.