Overview
- Provides a step-by-step guide on how to assess political culture qualitatively for scientists and practitioners
- A concise model based on Boesch's Symbolic Action Theory to ethnographically assess and interpret a political culture
- A brief and concise interview schedule dialogically assesses political culture for scientists and political campaigners
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Psychology (BRIEFSPSYCHOL)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Theoretical Advances in Psychology (BRIEFSTHEORET)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The present work discusses the phenomenon of conservativism from a qualitative, cultural-psychological perspective. As such, the text breaks with current mainstream research about political ideologies wanting to assess a political culture within the simple administration of a questionnaire. The SpringerBrief will oppose such a perspective trying to assess how the conservative-minded person will structure space and time in peculiar ways. In the first part of the study, participants were invited to reflect about how they preserve or conserve meaning in various activities whereas the second part of the study tried to shed light onto how something preservable or conservable comes into being and what it actually makes it preservable. Here, an autoethnographic study revealed that something becomes meaningfully preservable when it satisfies multiple demands of the Self as well as of the environment. Readers will realize the insufficiency of the positivistic attitude analyzing conservativism from a simple quantitative perspective, and researchers are shown how political ideologies or cultures can be assessed ecologically – something that has not yet been undertaken. This leads to an appeal for scientists to study the phenomenon of conservativism more wholistically.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conservativism: A Cultural-Psychological Exploration
Authors: Enno Freiherr von Fircks
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51205-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51204-9Published: 24 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-51205-6Published: 23 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2192-8363
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8371
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 124
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychology, general, Cross Cultural Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology