Psycho-Social Analysis of the Indian Mindset

• Main Author: Sinha, Jai B.P (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Philosophy, Asian.; Cultural studies.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Cultural Studies.; Non-Western Philosophy.

This volume situates Indians in the contemporary world and profiles the major facets of their thought and behaviour; then goes back to trace their roots to ancient thought to see how the past predisposes and the present guides Indians in their everyday life. The volume begins with a conceptual frame...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. The Framework
• Chapter 2. Collectivism and Individualism
• Chapter 3. Hierarchy and Power Process
• Chapter 4. Spirituality and Materialism
• Chapter 5. Religiosity, Secularism, and Sexuality
• Chapter 6. Entrepreneurship amidst Dependence Proneness
• Chapter 7. The Paradoxical Mindset
• Chapter 8. The Shifting Mindset
• Chapter 9. Mindset in the Larger Context
• Chapter 10. Epilogue.