Carl Ratner's new book deepens our understanding of psychology by
emphasizing the role that cultural factors, such as social
institutions, artifacts, and cultural concepts play in
psychological functioning. The author demonstrates the impact of
culture on stimulating and structuring emotion, personality,
perception, cognition, memory, sexuality, and mental illness.
Examples from interdisciplinary social science research illuminate
a sophisticated dialectical relationship between cultural factors
and psychological phenomena.
Written in an engaging style, the book articulates a new theory,
"macro cultural psychology," and a qualitative methodology for
investigating the cultural origins, characteristics, and functions
of psychological phenomena. Ratner explains how this cultural
perspective can be used to enhance psychological growth, illuminate
directions for social reform, and how social reform can enhance
psychological functioning, and vice versa.
"
Cultural Psychology" critically examines several prominent
psychological approaches including social constructionism,
feminism, hermeneutics, psychobiology, evolutionary,
cross-cultural, ecological, and mainstream psychology. The book
articulates a theory of macro culture that emphasizes the political
dimension of culture and psychology.
Intended for students, researchers, and practitioners in
psychology, education, psychotherapy, history, sociology,
anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, and policy makers and
practitioners in public health and social service who are
interested in understanding cultural aspects of psychology. The
book is an appropriate text for courses in cross-cultural or
community psychology, social work, social theory, and critical
thinking.
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