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Título: Consciousness Structures and Attachment Responses to Strange Situations
Autores: Riley, Philip
Gallant, Andrea
Fecha: 2008-05-29
Publicador: Asia Journal of Global Studies
Fuente:
Tipo: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Tema: psychology; sociology; anthropology
Descripción: As occupants of Planet Earth, we are currently experiencing what might be described as “strange situations”: 9/11, global warming, and the demise of the grand narrative, to name three. Strange situations pose threats of psychological and physical annihilation. Individual reactions to strange situations have been extensively studied in young children by Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters and Wall (1978a, 1978b). The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze cultural strange situations. Appreciating cultural responses to strange situations requires an acknowledgement that cultural consciousness exists. The discussion relates the structures of consciousness identified by Jean Gebser (1949/85) with cultural reactions to strange situations. This paper connects attachment and cultural consciousness theories as a new way to understand complexity and to face cultural strange situations with mindfulness, innovation, care and resolve.
Idioma: Inglés