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ANSWERING QUESTION NO: 1
1) Using the Philip Rieff essay Toward a Theory of Culture, and the Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s essay, Happiness Revisited, select a passage or passages from each essay that summarizes completely their respective views on the phenomena and concept of ‘culture.’ (There are many contained in each chapter so I suggest you don't choose the first one find) Using these passages, explain the differences and or similarities between how Csikszentmihalyi and Rieff frame culture.
Culture is a set of moral demands "deeply engraved engines, have been engraved in the superior figures trustworthy" But the countryside opposes the way in which sociologists limit the meaning of culture to "way of life" Culture…show more content… The sociologist Philip Rieff, in his work, The Triumph of the Therapeutic, first stated that all top-lumbers in the nature were actually "positive", which he directed by a religious symbol system, Has expressed the curing of all the collective commitment of the individuals and the introduction of therapeutic religious forms to prevent the anomaly leading to social disorder. However, with the influence of psychology, especially the deep psychology of Freud and Jung, a new supervisory symbolism took over the dominant religious symbolism. The key to the rise of the healing culture (or "inverse" communities) is the creation of a cultural void to evaluate the individual according to the social order and to work through the previously suppressed unconscious contents. Considering the contemporary effects of the new science, not only because of the intellectual benefits of the field, but also because the cultural mode of introspection dominates, psychology should be preferred Philosophers, theologians and comparators seem to be more willing to engage in dialogue with them because of the (correct) perceptions of their supporters. This period witnessed both the expansion and the creative rebirth of the pre-war efforts. The most important developments of the 1950s and 1960s, psychology; Analytical psychology; Humanistic, phenomenological and…show more content… The concept of psychology as religion is the throne of many scholars in the Religious Psychology because it apparently quintessence the religious character of the objective character of psychology as a method of analyzing religion. However, since Philip Rieff's work titled The Triumph of the Therapeutic, cultural theorists have increasingly written psychological ways that not only analyze religion but also culturally treat it as "a religion". As Jung and transpersonal psychologists have proved in the case, psychological theory often uses the existential quest of integrality, mystical experiences and individuality for regulatory and explanatory purposes. Psychology, which uses a method of apparently religious analysis, has its own values and it presents itself as a modern and unconventional way to elaborate the religiosity of the individual, while at the same time sometimes quite deliberately, not only to interpret the phenomenon of religion. This respect, with popular culture respect, is portrayed by the success of books that rely on jungle theorist and its derivatives, emphasizing psychological spirituality as a model of churchlessness. (Rieff, 1966)
What Csikszentmihalyi refers to as: "best experience" or "flow", not in a calm, passive, relaxing time, but as a general belief, "when our mind is stretched to the limit with a voluntary effort"
