ISBN : 9780199343805
Cultural Psychology draws upon major psychological topics, theories, and principles to illustrate the importance of culture in psychological inquiry. Exploring how culture broadly connects to psychological processing across diverse cultural communities and settings, it highlights the applied nature of cultural psychology to everyday life events and situations, presenting culture as a complex layer in which individuals acquire skills, values, and abilities.
Two central positions guide this textbook: one, that culture is a mental and physical construct that individuals live, experience, share, perform, and learn; and the second, that culture shapes growth and development. Culture-specific and cross-cultural examples highlight connections between culture and psychological phenomena. The text is multidisciplinary, highlighting different perspectives that also study how culture shapes human phenomena. Topics include an introduction to cultural psychology, the history of cultural psychology, cultural evolution and cultural ecology, methods, language and nonverbal communication, cognition, and perception. Through coverage of social behaviour, the book challenges students to explore the self, identity, and personality; social relationships, social attitudes, and intergroup contact in a global world; and social influence, aggression, violence, and war. Sections addressing growth and development include human development and its processes, transitions, and rituals across the lifespan, and socializing agents, socialization practices, and child activities. Additionally, the book features discussions of emotion and motivation, mental health and psychopathology, and future directions for cultural psychology. Chapters contain teaching and learning tools including case studies, multidisciplinary contributions, thought-provoking questions, class and experiential activities, chapter summaries, and additional print and media resources.
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction to Cultural Psychology
Chapter 2. History of Cultural Psychology
Chapter 3. Cultural Evolution and Cultural Ecology
Chapter 4. Methods: Ways of Knowing, Understanding, and Interpreting
Chapter 5. Language and Non-verbal Communication
Chapter 6. Cognition and Perception
Chapter 7. The Self, Identity, and Personality
Chapter 8. Social Relationships
Chapter 9. Social Attitudes and Intergroup Contact in a Global World
Chapter 10. Social Influence, Aggression, Violence, and War
Chapter 11. Human Development: Processes, transitions, and rituals
Chapter 12. Cultural Learning: Socialization Practices, Schooling, and Play
Chapter 13. Emotion
Chapter 14. Motivation
Chapter 15. Mental Health and Psychopathology
Chapter 16. Cultural Psychology in the 21st Century
References
Index