The work features the story of a Count who had his testicles torn off by a dog when he was a boy. It also contains the famous distinction between shame cultures and guilt cultures, which is meant to highlight the external versus the internal motivations for restrained action. A large part of the book is devoted to the analysis of the effects of hierarchy, particularly as source of stability and order. A common criticism o
The work features the story of a Count who had his testicles torn off by a dog when he was a boy. It also contains the famous distinction between shame cultures and guilt cultures, which is meant to highlight the external versus the internal motivations for restrained action. A large part of the book is devoted to the analysis of the effects of hierarchy, particularly as source of stability and order. A common criticism of the work is that it assumes nonlinear inheritance, that a society's population in the past is identical to that of the present. Commissioned by U.S. Army Intelligence, this is, for 10 points, what work about Japanese society, written by Ruth Benedict?
The work features the story of a Count who had his testicles torn off by a dog when he was a boy.
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