Macro Cultural Psychology: A Political Philosophy of Mind

by Carl Ratner

This book articulates a bold, new, systematic theory of psychology, culture, and their interrelation. It explains how macro cultural factors -- social institutions, cultural artifacts, and cultural concepts -- are the cornerstones of society and how they form the origins and characteristics of psychological phenomena. This theory is used to explain the diversity of psychological phenomena such as emotions, self, intelligence, sexuality, memory, reasoning,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195373545
• ISBN13: 9780195373547
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"