Introduction to Cultural Psychology

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Robyn M. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural Psychology ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Indigenous Psychology ◽  
Individualism And Collectivism ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Distinguishing Features

Chapter 1 explores the field of cultural psychology, the concept of culture, why we should study culture, and other disciplines that study culture. It provides definitions and distinguishing features for the terms culture, nationality, and ethnicity. It discusses the fields that study culture including cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, indigenous psychology, anthropology, cultural studies, and sociology. It explains ways to think about culture and constructs such as cultural universal and culture-specific, emics and etics, ethnocentrism and cultural relativism, and individualism and collectivism. It examines why we should study culture and the applied value of cultural psychology in real-life settings such as school, the workplace, and clinical contexts. This chapter includes a case study, Culture Across Disciplines box, chapter summary, key terms, a What Do Other Disciplines Do? section, thought-provoking questions, and class and experiential activities.

Cultural Psychology in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 617-643
Author(s):  
Robyn M. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Applied Social Psychology ◽  
Individualism And Collectivism ◽  
Key Terms

Chapter 16 reflects upon the past contributions of cultural psychology and the directions the discipline will travel in the future. It discusses influential thinkers in the 20th and 21st centuries and reconsiders constructs such as individualism and collectivism. It addresses current and future research endeavors in personality, the self and personality, depression, face, face and self-perceptions, values research, and the connection between values and social change. It also addresses current and future research in development through the subtopics of the Six Cultures Study on Socialization, children as active agents, socialization, education, and parenting. Finally it explores the current and future directions of the topics mental health issues, emotions, applied social psychology, morality, and cultural collisions. This chapter includes a case study, Culture Across Disciplines box, chapter summary, key terms, a What Do Other disciplines Do? section, thought-provoking questions, and class and experiential activities.

History of Cultural Psychology

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-69
Author(s):  
Robyn M. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Geert Hofstede ◽  
Wilhelm Wundt ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Indigenous Psychologies

Chapter 2 explores the individuals, disciplines, and historical forces that contributed to the emergence of cultural psychology. It discusses central themes and types of historical approaches, ancient Greek contributions, late 19th and early 20th century thinkers, Wilhelm Wundt, sociology and anthropology’s early contributions, the psychologists Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky, and the anthropologists Franz Boas and D. Price-Williams. It explores cross-cultural psychology and the contributions of Marshall Segall, Geert Hofstede, and Harry Triandis. Finally, it discusses cultural psychology and the contributions of Richard Shweder, Jerome Bruner, Michael Cole, and indigenous psychologies. This chapter includes a case study, Culture Across Disciplines box, chapter summary, key terms, a What Do Other Disciplines Do? section, thought-provoking questions, and class and experiential activities.

School Refusal Behavior

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Kearney
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Real Life ◽  
School Refusal ◽  
Long Term Outcomes ◽  
School Refusal Behavior ◽  
The Real ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Key Terms

This chapter provides a definition and description of the concept of school refusal behavior in children and adolescents. The chapter focuses on definitions of key terms, epidemiology, common behaviors and symptoms associated with problematic absenteeism, and short- and long-term outcomes of problematic absenteeism. However, a main focus is on how these characteristics pertain to, and illustrate, the real-life cases seen by the reader. Chapter 1 also include an overview of the book’s approach. The chapter discusses the purpose of this book and characteristics of youths with school refusal behavior. The chapter also presents a model for understanding school refusal behavior and for guiding assessment and intervention.

Proculturation: Self-reconstruction by making “fusion cocktails” of alien and familiar meanings

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimer Lado Gamsakhurdia
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural Psychology ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Global Culture ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Temporal Dimensions

This paper considers mental processes unfolding during humans’ movement in a foreign environment and aims to overcome theoretical discrepancies concerning culture and acculturation between sociocultural anthropology and cross-cultural psychology under the frame of cultural psychology. I propose to perceive culture as a multi-self-centered semiotic field, which is populated by signs and meanings, necessarily emphasizing its heterogeneity and incoherence. Cultures have hazy boundaries and are embedded into the wider web of meanings. In fact, there is one big global culture and all humans are involved in mediating it through intersubjective interactions. Further, the term proculturation is used to fill the gaps left by mainstream acculturation research, which has been mainly oriented on measuring ontologized trait-like characteristics in terms of bidimensional mechanic relationship between cultures and related correlations. Namely, proculturation specifically reflects real-life human experiences and the role of (inter)subjectivity in the process of adaptation in emigration or elsewhere in any unfamiliar environment. Most importantly proculturation implies triadic semiotic relations and the possibility of the creation of novel fusions of meanings, by mixing various ingredients in the process of mediation between familiar and unfamiliar ideas and experiences. Proculturation is catalytically conditioned by references to temporal dimensions and essentially is ever-continuing process.

Social Attitudes and Intergroup Contact in a Global World

2020 ◽  
pp. 323-364
Author(s):  
Robyn M. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Cultural Mismatch ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Global World ◽  
Key Terms ◽  
Immigrant Acculturation

Chapter 9 explores the ways culture shapes our attitudes, feelings, and the nature of intergroup contact. It discusses attitudes, prejudice, stereotypes, discrimination, culture-specific and cross-national studies, and the connection between beauty, skin color, and prejudice across different cultural communities. It addresses the immigrant experience, xenophobia, immigrant acculturation and adjustment, intergroup contact, cultural collisions, and social justice. It also includes a discussion of applied cultural psychology as it relates to immigrants and intergroup contact involving work and social mobility, school and cultural mismatch, multinational business, nonverbal communication, studying abroad, and business etiquette and culture. This chapter includes a case study, Culture Across Disciplines box, chapter summary, key terms, a What Do Other Disciplines Do? section, thought-provoking questions, and class and experiential activities.

scholarly journals Why Indigenous Psychology? A Review Article

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Divya Padalia
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural Psychology ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Indigenous Psychology ◽  
The World ◽  
Indigenous Psychologies

Indigenous Psychology is an emerging field in psychology (Kim et al., 2006, p.3). It has received great attention in the last 30 years with a number of articles and books been dedicated to the topic. Any discussion on this topic is often surrounded by a dialogue on cultural psychology and cross-cultural psychology. The primary aim of this paper is to understand the purpose behind the origin and development of indigenous psychologies that has been seen in various parts of the world and view it in light of cultural psychology.

Review of Journeys Into Cross-Cultural Psychology.

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-397
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson ◽  
Pamela Ramser
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural Psychology ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Cross Cultural
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