Ebook: Culture and self : Asian and Western perspectives

The purpose of this volume is to provide teachers, students, scholars, and professional practitioners with a comprehensive resource for understanding the reciprocal relationships between culture and self in western and Asian thought and the implications these relationships have for human adaptation and adjustment. All of the chapters proceed from the premise that the self is a necessary construct for explaining those emergent qualities of human behavior that proceed from person-context relationships; it is these qualities that are most associated with meaning, consciousness, and knowing in human experience. In illuminating the relationships between culture and self in Western and Asian thought, the chapters discuss both historical and contemporary concepts in the scholarly literature. Readers will find the chapters a fascinating journey across time and culture in the search for understanding the roots of human behavior.