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

by R. D'Andrade

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349371419
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/08/2015
Series:	Culture, Mind, and Society
Edition description:	1st ed. 2008
Pages:	173
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

ROY GOODWN D'ANDRADE is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Conceptual Framework Questionnaire Construction The Organization of Values Similarities and Differences The Americans The Vietnamese The Japanese Institutionalized Values