Further Explorations of the "Western Mind". Euro-American and German Mothers' and Grandmothers' Ethnotheories

This paper tries to disentangle the conception of independence as the dominant sociocultural orientation of care giving in Western postmodern societies sometimes referred to as the "Western mind." Mothers and grandmothers in Los Angeles, USA and Berlin, Germany were interviewed about their...

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Main Authors: Heidi Keller, Carolin Demuth
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: FQS 2006-01-01
Series:Forum: Qualitative Social Research
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Online Access:http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/74