Background
Devos, George Alphonse was born on July 25, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Medard Joseph and Marina Marie (Tack) Devos.
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Symbolic Analysis Cross-Culturally: The Rorschach Test
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Is the Rorschach test, a projective technique that involves verbal responses to a series of ink blots, useful in cultures other than the one where it originated? After many years of research the authors have concluded not only that it is but also that "cross-cultural comparison of psychological tests is . . . essential for further research in social psychiatry and psychological anthropology, as well as developmental psychology." Their book is the first systematic presentation of the use of the Rorschach test cross-culturally. Three different cultures are selected: Japanese, Algerian Arab, and Apache native American. Rorschach testing of members of these cultures corroborates the universality of human associative patterns influenced by affectivity, regardless of culture. A scoring system developed by De Vos is a major contribution to a new and reliable way of approaching, organizing, and integrating Rorschach responses in diverse cultural settings. With research contributions by Orin Borders, Richard Day, Akira Hoshino, Eiji Murakami, Takao Sofue, and Mayumi Taniguchi, the authors demonstrate how within-group and between-group differences can be methodically studied, to yield new insights into the interrelationship of personality and culture.
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Heritage of Endurance: Family Patterns and Delinquency Formation in Urban Japan
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Status Inequality: The Self in Culture (Cross Cultural Research and Methodology) y 1st printing edition by De Vos, George, Suarez-Orozco, Marcel (1990) Hardcover
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Socialization for Achievement: Essays on the Cultural Psychology of the Japanese (Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley) by George A. De Vos (1975) Paperback
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Confucianism and the Family (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
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The family is central to societies that have been profoundly influenced by the Confucian, and later Neo-Confucian, mandate. This book examines the nature of family continuities and the internal family social and psychological dynamics in societies that comprise the Confucian core of Asia, namely China (including Taiwan), Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and Singapore. Confucian ideas are discussed from diverse perspectives: religion, philosophy, and history; anthropology and sociology; psychology, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry. Both abiding psychological and social similarities as well as cultural differences are addressed. The volume provides insights on both the positive social cohesiveness found within Asian families and on the possible tensions and even psychopathological responses that may be engendered within a contemporary Confucian family. In addition, the work explores the common Confucian family-cultural background that must be understood to interpret both the scholastic and entrepreneurial success of East Asians wherever they have settled in the Americas and the recent economic push in their homelands.
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Status Inequality: The Self in Culture (Cross Cultural Research and Methodology)
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With his co-author, De Vos - a major figure in psychological anthropology - explores anthropological, sociological and psychoanalytical insights into human behaviour. Their unified theory synthesizes social structure and personality structure, concepts previously seen as diametrically opposed. The authors point to the symbolic nature of groups, the experience of ethnicity and of inequality, and the impact of internal and external variables on the sense of self. Separating the effects of status inequality from other social and psychological determinants of behaviour, this intriguing work discusses the developmental experience of the self.
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Social Cohesion and Alienation: Minorities in the United States and Japan
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In this volume the author explores the psychological experiences of social belonging and alienation that occur in individuals of both U.S. and Japanese societies. Dr. De Vos investigates the family context of social conformity or delinquency in Japan, suicide patterns, and the continuing plight of Japan's two largest minorities, the Burakumin and the ethnic Koreans. He also examines gang and peer group formation in the American context, especially as these processes relate to the breakdown of family cohesion in some ethnic families. Comparing the deleterious effect of social degradation on minority group members of both societies, De Vos develops a psychocultural concept of selective permeability to explain non-learning among some ethnic youth.
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Socialization for Achievement: Essays on the Cultural Psychology of the Japanese (Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley)
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Socialization for Achievement: Essays on the Cultural Psychology of the Japanese (Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley)
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NOT EX-LIBRARY. Very good in very good dust jacket. There is pencilling on front free endpaper, preparation for a review? Couldn't find any notes or marking in text, good solid clean copy
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Basic Dimensions in Conscious Thought: The Self and Socialization of Human Concerns; Psychocultural Research with the Thematic Apperception Test, Volume One
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Basic Dimensions in Conscious Thought represents a major contribution, describing an empirically-validated method for analyzing the thematic content of narratives as a tool for comparative research in Anthropology, Cultural Psychology and Ethnopsychiatry. This first volume in the two volume series presents the Interpersonal Concerns Scoring System (ICSS), which is a comprehensive system of dimensions and categories for classifying thematic content found in narratives. The ICSS categories are discussed from both developmental-psychological and psychocultural perspectives. This is designed to facilitate the cross-cultural researcher or clinician's understanding of how normative or non-normative patterns of thematic concerns might be inferentially related to socialization processes (whether adaptive or pathogenic) that are found in particular sociocultural settings.
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George Alphonse Devos
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George Alphonse Devos, American Psychologist, anthropologist. Fulbright fellow, Nagoya, Japan, 1953-1955; NIMN fellow French Min. Justice, 1963; National Science Foundation felow United Nations Social Defense Research Institute, Rome, since 1974; Fulbright Senior Research School Catholic U. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1992.
Education
Bachelor in Sociology, University of Chicago, 1946; Master of Arts in Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1948; Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, University of Chicago, 1951.
Career
Chief psychologist, director psychological training, Elgin (Illinois) Eastern State Hospital, 1951-1953; assistant professor psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1955-1957; associate professor social welfare, University of California, Berkeley, 1957-1963; professor anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1963-1991; professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, since 1991.
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Symbolic Analysis Cross-Culturally: The Rorschach Test
( Is the Rorschach test, a projective technique that invo...)
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Basic Dimensions in Conscious Thought: The Self and Socialization of Human Concerns; Psychocultural Research with the Thematic Apperception Test, Volume One
(Basic Dimensions in Conscious Thought represents a major ...)
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Status Inequality: The Self in Culture (Cross Cultural Research and Methodology)
(With his co-author, De Vos - a major figure in psychologi...)
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Social Cohesion and Alienation: Minorities in the United States and Japan
(In this volume the author explores the psychological expe...)
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Confucianism and the Family (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
(The family is central to societies that have been profoun...)
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Socialization for Achievement: Essays on the Cultural Psychology of the Japanese (Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley)
(NOT EX-LIBRARY. Very good in very good dust jacket. There...)
- Cross-Cultural Dimensions in Conscious Thought
- Heritage of Endurance: Family Patterns and Delinquency Formation in Urban Japan
- Status Inequality: The Self in Culture (Cross Cultural Research and Methodology) y 1st printing edition by De Vos, George, Suarez-Orozco, Marcel (1990) Hardcover
- Socialization for Achievement: Essays on the Cultural Psychology of the Japanese (Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley) by George A. De Vos (1975) Paperback
- Socialization for Achievement: Essays on the Cultural Psychology of the Japanese (Center for Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley)
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Symbolic Analysis Cross-Culturally: The Rorschach Test
Membership
President Society for Psychological Abthropology American Psychological Association, 1984-1985. Member APA, Association Asian Studies, American Anthropology Association.
Connections
Married Suzanne Lake, November 18, 1974. Children: Laurie, Susan, Eric, Michael.
