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Indigenous and cultural psychology : understanding people in context

edited by Uichol Kim, Kuo-Shu Yang, Kwang-Kuo Hwang

(International and cultural psychology series / series editor, Anthony J. Marsella)

Springer, c2006

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Indigenous psychology is an emerging new field in psychology, focusing on psychological universals in social, cultural, and ecological contexts - Starting point for psychologists who wish to understand various cultures from their own ecological, historial, philosophical, and religious perspectives

Table of Contents

Section I Theoretical and Methodological Issues: Contributions To Indigenous And Cultural Psychology: Understanding People in Context.- The Scientific Foundation of Indigenous and Cultural Psychology: The Transactional Approach.- The Importance of Constructive Realism for The Indigenous Psychologies Approach.- Constructive Realism and Confucian Relationalism: An Epistemological Strategy for the Development of Indigenous Psychology.- From Decolonizing Psychology to the Development of a Cross-Indigenous Perspective in Methodology: The Philippine Experience. - Section II Family and Socialization: Parental Ethnotheories of Child Development: Looking beyond Independence and Individualism in American Belief Systems.- Close Interpersonal Relationships among Japanese: Amae as Distinguished from Attachment and Dependence.- Affect and Early Moral Socialization: Some Insights and Contributions from Indigenous Psychological Studies in Taiwan.- Cultures are Like All Other Cultures, Like Some Other Cultures, Like No Other Culture.- Section III Cognitive Processes: The Mutual Relevance of Indigenous Psychology and Morality.- Native Dialectism and the Tao of Chinese Thought.- Indian Perspectives on Cognition.- Section IV Self and Personality: Indigenous Personality Research: The Chinese Case.- Site Under Construction: An Ethnopsychological Representation of Mexican Self-Concept.- The Chinese Conception of the Self: Towards a Person-making Perspective.- Naive Psychology of Koreans' Interpersonal Mind and Behavior in Close Relationships.- Section V Application: Humanism-Materialism: Century-long Polish Cultural Origins and Twenty Years of Research in Cultural Psychology.- Chinese Conception of Justice and Reward Allocation.- Family, Parent-Child Relationship and Academic Achievement in Korea: Indigenous Psychological Analysis.- Paternalism: Towards Conceptual Refinement andOperationalization.- Creating Indigenous Psychologies: Insights from Empirical Social Studies of the Science of Psychology.- Biographical Sketch.- Index.

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  • NCID
    BA78021669
  • ISBN
    • 0387286616
  • LCCN
    2005932042
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxi, 518 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
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