Motivation and Culture - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415915090 ISBN 13: 9780415915090

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

Although a growing number of researchers emphasize the social and psychocultural aspects of motivation and motivation theory, few books have provided much coverage beyond well-tread studies of physiological and biological factors and theories.

Motivation and Culture brings together eighteen writers with a variety of academic backgrounds and cultural experiences to explore the way that culture impinges on motivation. Exploring topics such as personal values and motives, intercultural exchange in the workplace, the intrapsychic process and the nexus between biology and culture, they formulate theories of motivation that can be applied in the modern multicultural world.

Contributors include: Dona Lee Davis, Russell Geen, Joan Miller, John Paul Scott, William Wedenoja, Elisa J. Sobo and Stephen Wilson.

About this title

About the Author:

Donald Munro is conjoint Associate Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology at The University of Newcastle in Newcastle, Australia.     Stuart C. Carr is Professor of Psychology at Massey University in Auckland Aotearoa/New Zealand.      John F. Schumaker is a retired clinical psychologist, academic, author, and social critic who lives in Christchurch, Aotearoa/New Zealand.  His self-authored books are In Search of Happiness: Understanding an Endangered State of Mind (Kindle 2016; Penguin Books 2006; German edition Das Manipulierte Gluck: Von den trügerischen Verheißungen der Konsumkultur: WJS, Berlin);  The Age of Insanity: Modernity and Mental Health (Praeger); The Corruption of Reality: A Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis, and Psychopathology (Prometheus Books); and Wings of Illusion (Prometheus Books).  His edited books are Religion and Mental Health (Oxford University Press), Human Suggestibility (Routledge); Cultural Cognition and Psychopathology (Praeger); Psychology and the Developing World (Praeger); Motivation and Culture (Routledge); and Perspectives on Belief and Experience (Prism Press).  His essays for The New Internationalist magazine include "The Demoralized Mind," "The Happiness Conspiracy," "The Triumph of Triviality," "Dying for the Things We Love," "Dead Zone," "Earth Warrior," and "Starstruck."

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0415915090
• ISBN 13: 9780415915090
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Munro Donald, Schumaker John F., Carr Stuart C.