Cultural Psychology

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.

Auteur

Robyn M. Holmes is Professor of Psychology and Associated Faculty member in the History and Anthropology Department at Monmouth University. Her research on children's experiences and activities explore play and culture, play and creativity, early childhood education, outdoor play and recess, sport, and social cognition. Her work with children and adults in cultural communities in the United States and Pacific Rim reflects her commitment to understand cultural activity and participation from peoples' perspectives and in their own words.

Contenu

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