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The ambivalence of motivation and the problems of cultural differentiation were the notes on which we left the last chapter. They are by no means the only difficulties in human life. There are many other conflicts and contradictions. I will choose two for consideration: perversity, and the effects of technology, factors found everywhere though not usually associated. Both are intensified and their moments of conflict sharpened as civilization advances. No examination of entire man would be complete without a consideration of what is involved when artifacts compel conformity and meet resistance at its outer edges.
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Feibleman, J.K. (1982). Man: Perversity. In: Technology and Reality. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7455-5_7
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