โ Scribed by Hazel Rose Markus;Alana Conner, Ph.D
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
What kind of person are you?
Are you independent—individual, unique, and in control of your world? Are you interdependent—relational, similar to others, and good at adjusting to situations?
Or are you both?
In Clash!, leading cultural psychologists Hazel Rose Markus and Alana Conner show us how our cultural backgrounds create and reflect these two basic ways of being a self, which then shapes everything from how we run our governments to how we raise our children.
Markus and Conner also demonstrate how clashes between independence and interdependence fuel many of today's most pressing conflicts, including tensions between East and West, the Global North and Global South, men and women, blacks and whites, conservative and liberal, religious groups, rich and poor, and businesses, governments, and nonprofits.
Provocative and entertaining, Clash! offers solutions to many of the problems that plague our workplaces, schools,...
Culture;Culture conflict;POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy;Self;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture;
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