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... cultural require- ments at large . There may be both a certain kind of resonant flexibility which makes children ready for the cultural assimila- tion process and a certain kind of basic reluctance , as it were , to undergo the impress ...
... cultural require- ments at large . There may be both a certain kind of resonant flexibility which makes children ready for the cultural assimila- tion process and a certain kind of basic reluctance , as it were , to undergo the impress ...
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... culturally standardized habits and of cultural norms or rules that sustain them . For some cul- tural arrangements are much more rigid than others , and some are much harder to bear than others . In some African tribes all boys have to ...
... culturally standardized habits and of cultural norms or rules that sustain them . For some cul- tural arrangements are much more rigid than others , and some are much harder to bear than others . In some African tribes all boys have to ...
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Gardner Murphy. the " cultural " had to dance , today the cultural calls the tune and biology dances or hobbles as best it may . At first sight , this may mean that biological extrapolation is even more difficult than cultural , but this ...
Gardner Murphy. the " cultural " had to dance , today the cultural calls the tune and biology dances or hobbles as best it may . At first sight , this may mean that biological extrapolation is even more difficult than cultural , but this ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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