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Pepinsky, Pauline Nichols was born on June 27, 1919 in Baton Rouge. Daughter of Irby Coghill and Pauline (Wright) Nichols.
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This book explores the construction and maintenance of alternative worlds of common sense. Employing a comparative approach, Dr. Pepinsky monitors events in Norway and the United States over several decades, treating these countries as prototypes of societies that are classifiable as modern Western democracies, but which exhibit marked contrasts in size and cultural homogeneity. She examines the conditions under which different social realities are generated, the assumptions that they presuppose, and the practices that sustain them. She then goes on to analyze the methods by which continuity is maintained and the grounds upon which changes are legitimized over time. Pepinsky directs her book at an interdisciplinary audience. She addresses problems of increasing concern in the social sciences and in the world at large. Cultural differences in modal perspective affect the formulation of public policies and also contribute to intergroup tensions, as interpersonal relations are simultaneously becoming intercultural encounters within many contemporary societies. Researchers and students in social and cross-cultural psychology, ethnography, sociology, and political science will find this work of considerable interest.
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Pepinsky, Pauline Nichols was born on June 27, 1919 in Baton Rouge. Daughter of Irby Coghill and Pauline (Wright) Nichols.
Bachelor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1939; Master of Arts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1941; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1949.
Acting assistant professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1946-1948; from acting to assistant professor, Washington State University, Pullman, 1948-1951; research associate, Ohio State University Research Foundation, Columbus, 1952-1961; senior research associate in social science Mershon Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, 1969-1997; retired, 1997.
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Fellow American Psychological Society. Member American Psychological Association, Ohio Psychological Association, Central Ohio Psychological Association, Mortar Board, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Lambda Theta, Sigma Xi.
Married Harold Brenner Pepinsky, August 27, 1943. 1 child, Harold Eugene.