Movatterモバイル変換


[0]ホーム

URL:


Skip to main content
Springer Nature Link
Log in

A modest test of cross-cultural differences in sexual modesty, embarrassment and self-disclosure

  • Published:
Qualitative Sociology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Borrowing Hall's (1976) analytic distinction between Low and High Context Cultures, seven hypotheses distinguishing German nudists (low context) from French nudists (high context) are deduced. Data collected at public nudism beaches in France and Germany supports these differences; namely, that Germans have more overt time-space segmentation of activities, less differentiation of sexuality and sensuality, less body display, more male-dominated cross-sex body contact, more segregation of parts of the body, more staring behavior and more concern with accentuation of the body. These differences lead to conclusions that formulations by Weinberg (1964) of embarrassment and modesty are specific to high context cultures like the United States and West Germany and are inappropriate in low context cultures like France. Future trends in nudism are discussed along with the implications for modesty, embarrassment and self-disclosure.

This is a preview of subscription content,log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+
from ¥17,985 /Month
  • Starting from 10 chapters or articles per month
  • Access and download chapters and articles from more than 300k books and 2,500 journals
  • Cancel anytime
View plans

Buy Now

Price includes VAT (Japan)

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Similar content being viewed by others

Explore related subjects

Discover the latest articles, books and news in related subjects, suggested using machine learning.

References

  • Casler, Lawrence 1964 “Some sociopsychological observations in a nudist camp.” Journal of Social Psychology 72:307–322.

    Google Scholar 

  • Edney, Julian J. and Nancy Jordan-Edney 1974 “Territorial spacing on a beach.” Sociometry 37:105–115.

    Google Scholar 

  • Francoeur, Robert T. and Anna K. Francoeur 1974 Hot and Cool Sex: Cultures in Conflict. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gieb, Frederick A. 1956 “Nudism's slice of life.” Modern Sunbathing 27: 29–38.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hall, Edward T. 1976 Beyond Culture. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor/Doubleday.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hartman, William E., Marilyn Fithian; and Donald Johnson 1970 Nudist Society: An Authoritative Complete Study of Nudism in America. New York: Crown Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ilfeld, Fred Jr. and Roger Lauer 1964 Social Nudism in America. New Haven, Conn.: College and University Press Services, Inc.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jourard, Sidney M. 1971 Self-Disclosure: An Experimental Analysis of the Transparent Self. New York: Wiley-Interscience.

    Google Scholar 

  • Killian, L.M. 1964 “Social movements.” in R.E.L. Faris (ed.), Handbook of Modern Sociology. Chicago: Rand-McNally.

    Google Scholar 

  • McLuhan, Marshall 1964 Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: Dell.

    Google Scholar 

  • Merrill, Francis and Mason Merrill 1931 Among the Nudists. New York: A.A. Knopf.

    Google Scholar 

  • Seal, Herb 1960 “Family-group identification with the nudist movement of Oregon and Southern California.” San Francisco State College, unpublished Master's thesis.

  • Smelser, Neil J. 1963 Theory of Collective Behavior. New York: Free Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Weber, J.A. 1978 “Group territorial spacing on French and German beaches: A cross-national analysis, including nudist and non-nudist groups.” Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, unpublished master's thesis.

    Google Scholar 

  • Weinberg, Martin S. 1964 “Sexual modesty, social meanings, and the nudist camp.” Social Problems 12:311–318.

    Google Scholar 

  • —— 1965 “Sex, modesty and deviants.” Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation.

    Google Scholar 

  • —— 1966 “Becoming nudist.” Psychiatry 29: 15–24.

    Google Scholar 

  • —— 1967 “Nudist camp, way of life and social structure.” Human Organization 26: 91–99.

    Google Scholar 

  • —— 1968 “Embarrassment: Its variable and invariable aspects.” Social Forces 46: 382–388.

    Google Scholar 

  • —— 1970 “The nudist management of respectability strategy for, and consequences of, the construction of a situated morality.” Pp. 375–403 in Jack D. Douglas (ed.), Deviance and Respectability: The Social Construction of Moral Meanings. New York: Basic Books.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Sociology, University of Missouri, 63121, St. Louis, MO

    H. W. Smith

Authors
  1. H. W. Smith

Rights and permissions

About this article

Access this article

Subscribe and save

Springer+
from ¥17,985 /Month
  • Starting from 10 chapters or articles per month
  • Access and download chapters and articles from more than 300k books and 2,500 journals
  • Cancel anytime
View plans

Buy Now

Price includes VAT (Japan)

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Advertisement


[8]ページ先頭

©2009-2026 Movatter.jp