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.
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