Cross-cultural psychology : research and applications
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Cross-cultural psychology : research and applications
Cambridge University Press, 1992
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliography (p. 393-439) and indexes
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Description
Cross-Cultural Psychology is a comprehensive overview of cross-cultural studies in a number of substantive areas - psychological development, social behavior, personality, cognition, and perception - and covers theory and applications to acculturation, work, communication, health, and national development. Cast within an ecological and cultural framework, it views the development and display of human behavior as the outcome of both ecological and socio-political influences, and it adopts a 'universalistic' position with respect to the range of similarities and differences in human behavior across cultures. Basic psychological processes are assumed to be species-wide, shared human characteristics, but culture plays variations on these underlying similarities.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction to cross-cultural psychology
- Part I. Similarities and Differences in Behaviour Across Cultures: 2. Cultural transmission and development
- 3. Social behaviour
- 4. Personality
- 5. Cognition
- 6. Perception
- Part II. Pursuing Problems Across Cultures: Research Strategies: 7. Cultural approaches
- 8. Biological approaches
- 9. Methodological concerns
- 10. Theoretical issues in cross-cultural psychology
- Part III. Applying Research Findings Across Cultures: 11. Acculturation and culture contact
- 12. Ethnic groups and minorities
- 13. Organizations and work
- 14. Communication and training
- 15. Health behavior
- 16. Psychology and the developing world
- Epilogue. References
- Author index
- Subject index.
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