The Human Image in Postmodern America

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ISBN: 9781557989864 | 1557989869
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Copyright: 2/1/2003

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Loyola Univ., Chicago, IL. Text analyzes a range of social and cultural issues demonstrating the nonmechanical nature of human behavior in real-life situations. Discusses such issues as personal responsibility, individualism, autonomy, postmodernism, racism, and political correctness. For psychologists.

Introduction	p. xi
Being Human Collectively and Individually	p. 3
Basic Concepts to Begin With	p. 3
Sorting Out Individual and Collective Processing	p. 9
An Example Lifestyle	p. 11
Human Agency via Dialectical Reasoning	p. 13
Concluding Comment	p. 15
Personality Theorizing as Describing Individuals or Collectives	p. 17
Psychoanalyzing Individuals	p. 18
Behaviorism: Forgoing the Individual	p. 24
From Individual to Collective Theorizing	p. 28
Concluding Comment	p. 30
Collective Theorizing in the Third Millennium	p. 33
The Emergence of Postindustrial Society	p. 34
Postmodernism	p. 36
Social Constructionism	p. 40
Class Identities and the Marxian Argument	p. 42
Society Is Process and Culture Is Content	p. 45
Relativism and Evaluation in Reasoning	p. 46
Concluding Comment	p. 49
A Missing Link in the Human Image	p. 51
The Computer Model: Strengths and Limitations	p. 52
Computer Explanation of Free Will	p. 54
Overlooking Dialectical Reasoning	p. 56
Existentialism, Oppositionality, and Behaviors That Shock or Invite Bigotry	p. 62
Oppositionality and Levels of Consciousness	p. 64
A Needed Change in the Human Image	p. 66
Concluding Comment	p. 67
The Self Takes Over	p. 69
Self and Self-Reflexivity	p. 69
Self-Esteem	p. 70
Personal Responsibility Through Autonomy	p. 73
Politically Correcting Responsibility	p. 74
The Myth of Individualism	p. 75
Morality, Authoritophobia, and the Authority Within	p. 77
Autonomy and the Political Spectrum	p. 78
Homelessness as Autonomous Living	p. 80
Concluding Comment	p. 82
Biology and Behavior	p. 83
Brain Structure: Some Facts	p. 84
Imaging Brain Function	p. 87
Genes, DNA, and Choice	p. 89
Emotions of Love and Lust in Our Time	p. 90
Addiction	p. 92
Racism	p. 95
Concluding Comment	p. 101
Values at Every Turn	p. 103
Values and Virtues	p. 103
Receiving Versus Conceiving Values	p. 106
Religious Values	p. 107
Politics	p. 109
Culture as Multi- and Relative	p. 114
Confronting a "Left-Wing Conspiracy" in Academia?	p. 119
Concluding Comment	p. 122
The Human Image in Postmodern America	p. 125
Collective Versus Individual Thinking	p. 126
The Postindustrial or Postmodern Person	p. 127
The Postmodern Family	p. 128
Postmodernism as Individualism or Collectivism	p. 132
The Role of Opposition in the Postmodern Image of Humanity	p. 134
The Challenge of Relativism	p. 135
What Is the Basic Function of Relativism?	p. 138
The Defeat of Blind Relativism	p. 139
The Imperfect Human Image	p. 141
Concluding Comment	p. 142
Afterword	p. 145
Notes	p. 147
Author Index	p. 163
Subject Index	p. 167
About the Author	p. 175
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