A Study of Personal and Cultural Values: American, Japanese, and Vietnamese (Culture, Mind, and Society)

This Study Analyzes American, Vietnamese, And Japanese Personal Values, Attempting To Understand How It Can Be That Ethnographers Find Large Differences In Values Between Cultures, Yet Empirical Surveys Find Relatively Small Differences In Personal Values Between Cultures. D'andrade Argues That People Live In Two Distinct Value Worlds; The World Of Personal Values And The World Of Institutionalized Values. Assessing These Value Worlds, D'andrade Is Able To Explain The Contrast Between Ethnography And Survey Data, While Making Vital Commentary On American, Vietnamese, And Japanese Culture. With Insight And Precision, This Book Contributes To The Important Debate That The Culture, Mind, And Society Series Has Initiated.--jacket. Introduction; The Conceptual Framework; Questionnaire Construction; The Organization Of Values; Similarities And Differences; The Americans; The Vietnamese; The Japanese; Institutionalized Values. Roy D'andrade. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [161]-168) And Index. Contents......Page 8 List of Figures and Tables......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 1 Introduction—The Initial Puzzle......Page 14 2 The Conceptual Framework......Page 20 3 Questionnaire Construction......Page 26 4 The Three Society Study......Page 34 5 The Organization of Values......Page 40 6 Similarities and Differences......Page 64 7 The Americans......Page 74 8 The Vietnamese......Page 90 9 The Japanese......Page 114 10 Institutionalized Values......Page 134 Appendix......Page 156 Bibliography......Page 174 G......Page 182 R......Page 183 Z......Page 184 Palgrave Macmillan Contents 8 List of Figures and Tables 10 Acknowledgments 12 1 Introduction—The Initial Puzzle 14 2 The Conceptual Framework 20 3 Questionnaire Construction 26 4 The Three Society Study 34 5 The Organization of Values 40 6 Similarities and Differences 64 7 The Americans 74 8 The Vietnamese 90 9 The Japanese 114 10 Institutionalized Values 134 Appendix 156 Bibliography 174 Index 182 A 182 B 182 C 182 D 182 E 182 F 182 G 182 H 183 I 183 K 183 L 183 M 183 N 183 O 183 P 183 R 183 S 184 T 184 V 184 W 184 Z 184 ISBN-13:,9780230602991 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.