Shame : A Brief History /

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Shame varies as an individual experience and its manifestations across time and cultures. Groups establish identity and enforce social behaviors through shame and shaming, while attempts at shaming often provoke a social or political backlash. Yet historians often neglect shame's power to compl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stearns, Peter N. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Scham
Schande
Shame.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
PSYCHOLOGY > Physiological Psychology.
Honte.
Shame
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Exploring Shame: The Interdisciplinary Context
  • Shame and Shaming in Premodern Societies
  • The Impact of Modernity: Some Possibilities
  • Reconsidering Shame in Western Society: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  • The Revival of Shame: Contemporary History.

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