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Does our cultural background influence the way we think and feel about ourselves and others? Does our culture affect how we choose our partners, how we define intelligence and abnormality and how we bring up our children? Psychologists have long pondered the relationship between culture and a range of psychological attributes. Cultural Issues In Psychology is an all round student guide to the key studies, theories and controversies which seek to explore human behaviour in a global context.

The book explores key controversies in global psychology, such as:

  • Culture: what does it mean and how has it been researched?

  • Relativism and universalism: are they compatible approaches in global research?

  • Ethnocentrism: is psychological research dominated by a few regions of the world?

  • Indigenous psychologies: what are the diverse research traditions from around the world?

  • Research methods and pe

Cultural Issues in Psychology

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    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
    Publication Date: 1/26/2009
    ISBN13: 9780415429238, 978-0415429238
    ISBN10: 415429234

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    Does our cultural background influence the way we think and feel about ourselves and others? Does our culture affect how we choose our partners, how we define intelligence and abnormality and how we bring up our children? Psychologists have long pondered the relationship between culture and a range of psychological attributes. Cultural Issues In Psychology is an all round student guide to the key studies, theories and controversies which seek to explore human behaviour in a global context.

    The book explores key controversies in global psychology, such as:

    • Culture: what does it mean and how has it been researched?

    • Relativism and universalism: are they compatible approaches in global research?

    • Ethnocentrism: is psychological research dominated by a few regions of the world?

    • Indigenous psychologies: what are the diverse research traditions from around the world?

    • Research methods and pe

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