The Relational Essence of Cultural Psychology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Adams ◽  
Sara Estrada-Villalta ◽  
Tuğçe Kurtiş
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Normalization Strategy ◽  
Psychology Perspective ◽  
Racial Domination

A cultural psychology perspective proposes an anti-essentialist view of mind and culture that takes the relationality between them as the “essence” of human being. Concerning mind, species-typical tendencies do not emerge “just naturally”, but instead require engagement with cultural affordances. Concerning culture, human ecologies are not “just” natural; instead, we inhabit intentional worlds that carry traces of human imagination and influence. After introducing these ideas, the chapter applies decolonial strategies of cultural psychology to reconsider hegemonic perspectives on love and relationality. The denaturalization strategy considers how standard accounts of relationality have their foundation in independent selfways that reflect and reproduce racial domination. The normalization strategy challenges prevailing accounts that portray other forms of relationality as pathological deviations from the hegemonic standard. In many cases, these forms are expressions of interdependent selfways, attuned to the relational essence of being, that are worthy of broader emulation.

Mother or Wife?

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 232-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phia S. Salter ◽  
Glenn Adams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Church Membership ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Psychology Perspective ◽  
Cultural Ecological

Inspired by “Mother or Wife” African dilemma tales, the present research utilizes a cultural psychology perspective to explore the dynamic, mutual constitution of personal relationship tendencies and cultural-ecological affordances for neoliberal subjectivity and abstracted independence. We administered a resource allocation task in Ghana and the United States to assess the prioritization of conjugal/nuclear relationships over consanguine/kin relationships along three dimensions of sociocultural variation: nation (American and Ghanaian), residence (urban and rural), and church membership (Pentecostal Charismatic and Traditional Western Mission). Results show that tendencies to prioritize nuclear over kin relationships – especially spouses over parents – were greater among participants in the first compared to the second of each pair. Discussion considers issues for a cultural psychology of cultural dynamics.

Life is not chess: Towards a dynamic theory on altruism

2020 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2095755
Author(s):  
Zarak Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Dynamic Theory ◽  
Grounded Cognition ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Economic View

Economic theory propagates a model of the human being commonly known as homoeconomicus; an individual with a rational orientation directed towards maximizing his/her preferences. However, our everyday lives involve many altruistic acts. These can range from small gestures of kindness such as holding a door open for another person, to heroic feats such as risking one's life to save a child from drowning. During our lives we also meet certain people that instantly induce our kindness. Our nicety in these moments is not based on a pursuit to optimize our material desires. Rather, we allow our feelings and intuitions to guide the course of our actions. How do we reconcile these experiences against the economic conception of human nature as inherently selfish? Addressing this contradiction, the paper will deconstruct the economic view and repositioning it as the product of an epistemological stance that distorts our view of altruism. An alternative model on altruism will then be developed by merging anthropological theories on value with insights from cultural psychology and grounded cognition. Through this process, a passage will be shown from static and universalizing perspective towards an emergent and dynamic theory on altruism.

The role of “responsiveness” within the self in transitions to university

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramon Gomes ◽  
Virgínia Dazzani ◽  
Giuseppina Marsico
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Psychology Perspective ◽  
Stress Responding

Entering university is a complex psychosocial phenomenon that can create several new stressful situations that students need to face. The transition into university may be accompanied by some psychosocial problems such as reduced self-esteem and academic achievement, increased social anxiety, and a critical rise in the probability of dropout. How does a person use cultural elements to cope with stress? Responding to this question requires an understanding of the multivocal and ambivalent self. The paper aims at introducing and discussing the concept of Educational Self and the role of the responsiveness for explaining the complexity of the transition to a new educational context in Cultural Psychology perspective. The notion of responsiveness plays a crucial role in the “reconfiguration” of the multivocal and ambivalent self in transition.

scholarly journals MIGRATION POVERTY AND SLAVERY OF HUMAN BEING (STUDY IN PSYCHOLOGY PERSPECTIVE)

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Reza Fahmi
Keyword(s):  
Group Discussion ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Psychological Scale ◽  
Class Society ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Psychology Perspective ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Data Documentation

The research aims: (1) Describing a migration of poverty from Indonesian people. (2) Describing a slave of human being. (3) The correlation between migrations of poverty and slavery of human being. The research used mixing methods as an approach. The population of the study was about 128 people. But only 97 people involved in this research. The simple random sampling was using as a technique of sampling. The data collected with psychological scale, data documentation, depth interview and Focus Group Discussion). The research found that: firstly, the average of the mean and percentage of migration poverty were categories high. It means that most of Indonesian people who migrate as a worker are coming from lower class society. Secondly, the average mean and percentage of slavery of human being high. It means that most of Indonesia people could not have bargaining power for doing their job. Then, there are correlation between migrant poverty and slavery of human being involved Indonesian worker.

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