Pursuit of meaning : advances in cultural and cross-cultural psychology /

The fields of cross-cultural and cultural psychology both acknowledge the role of `culture' for the constitution of a meaningful practice. There are notable differences as well as remarkable commonalities between nomologically oriented cross-cultural psychology on the one hand and interpretive...

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Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Group Author: Kölbl, Carlos; Straub, Jürgen; Weidemann, Doris; Zielke, Barbara
Published: transcript Verlag,
Publisher Address: Bielefeld :
Publication Dates: 2015.
©2006
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Kultur- und medientheorie
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839402344
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Summary: The fields of cross-cultural and cultural psychology both acknowledge the role of `culture' for the constitution of a meaningful practice. There are notable differences as well as remarkable commonalities between nomologically oriented cross-cultural psychology on the one hand and interpretive cultural psychology on the other. Contributions to this book discuss recent theoretical and methodological approaches from both fields in order to explore their joint potential for an advancement of the concept of culture, for the theoretical conceptualization and methodical completion of comparative cultural studies and the scientific understanding of cultural difference. This volume includes contributions by Ernest E. Boesch, Kenneth J. Gergen, Rom Harr , Gustav Jahoda and Jaan Valsiner.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (518 pages).
ISBN: 9783839402344 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: GN502
CLC: C955
Contents: Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS /
Psychology, Culture, and the Pursuit of Meaning: an Introduction /
From Cognition to Culture: Cultural Psychology and Social Constructionism as Post-Cognitivist Movements in Psychology /
Whither Cross-Cultural Psychology? /
A Meditation on Message and Meaning /
Understanding as Relationship: Cultural Psychology in Global Context /
Analyzing Social Interactions in a Glocal Society: Problems and Possibilities of a Cultural Psychology /
Culture and the Dialogical Self : Toward a Secular Cultural Psychology of Religion /
Universals and the Psychology of Music: An Exemplar for Cultural Studies /
Understanding Cultural Differences: Relational Hermeneutics and Comparative Analysis in Cultural Psychology /
Historically Structured Sampling (HSS): How can Psychology s Methodology Become Tuned in to the Reality of the Historical Nature of Cultural Psychology? /
Beyond the Dilemma of Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology: Resolving the Tension between Nomothetic and Idiographic Approaches /
The Solution of Fundamental Methodological Problems in Cross- Cultural Psychology by Guaranteeing the Equivalence of Measurements /
Quantitative and Qualitative Cross-Cultural Comparison: The Role of Cultural Metrics /
Exploring Intercultural Learning: Potential and Limits of the Structure Formation Technique /
How to Orient Yourself in Balinese Space: Combining Ethnographic and Psychological Methods for the Study of Cognitive Processes /
Rituals of Manliness in Western Films of the 9