Springer, 2017. — 330 p. — ISBN10: 3319580558, ISBN13: 978-3319580555. In contrast to other studies on identity, this book takes its point of departure in the complexities that characterize and shape both individuals and societies - past and present. Its chapters challenge demarcated fields of study and conceptions of identity as gender, identity as functional disability,...
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 560 p. — (Oxford Library of Psychology). — ISBN: 978-0-19-979669-4. Multiculturalism is a prevalent worldwide societal phenomenon. Aspects of our modern life, such as migration, economic globalization, multicultural policies, and cross-border travel and communication have made intercultural contacts inevitable. High numbers of...
2nd Ed. — Oxford University Press, Inc., 2002. — 588 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-511-07761-6 This second edition of the best selling textbook has been substantially revised to provide the student with the most comprehensive overview of cross-cultural psychology available in one volume. The team of internationally acclaimed authors have included the most up-to-date research in the field...
3rd edition. — Oxford University Press, 2011. — 668 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-74520-8. Cross-Cultural Psychology is a leading textbook offering senior undergraduate and graduate students a thorough and balanced overview of the whole field of cross-cultural psychology. The team of internationally acclaimed authors presents the latest empirical research, theory, methodology, and...
Springer, 2010. — 286 p. — ASIN B00F8K04B2. This volume presents the reader with a stimulating tapestry of essays exploring the nature of personal autonomy, self-determination, and agency, and their role in human optimal functioning at multiple levels of analysis from personal to societal and cross-cultural. The starting point for these explorations is self-determination...
Praeger, 2017. — 998 p. How does culture impact personality traits? To answer that question, the three volumes in this set address current theory and research on culture and personality in an effort to determine how people differ — and how they are alike. Detailed chapters by scholars from around the world unveil a fascinating picture of the relationship between culture and...
The Guilford Press, 2019. — 930 p. Now completely revised (over 90% new), this handbook offers an authoritative presentation of theories, methods, and applications in the dynamic field of cultural psychology. Leading scholars review state-of-the-art empirical research on how culture affects nearly every aspect of human functioning. The volume examines how topics fundamental to...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 384 p. Promoting a scholarly understanding of the psychology of social and cultural diversity in the early stages of 21st century, this volume encourages an in-depth appreciation of the value in diversity while directly addressing social intervention and policy implications. Offers, for the very first time, an integrated approach to the issues raised by...
3rd Edition — W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. — 752 p. The most contemporary and relevant introduction to the field, Cultural Psychology , Third Edition, is unmatched in both its presentation of current, global experimental research and its demonstration of how cultural psychology is relevant to students’ lives, their society, and the world around them. Steven J. Heine is...
SAGE Publications, 2001. — 616 p. This book explores the differences in thinking and social action that exist among members of more than 50 modern nations. It argues that people carry “mental programs” that are developed in the family in early childhood and reinforced in schools and organizations and that these mental programs contain a component of national culture. They are...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 570 p. — (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology). With the number of international migrants globally reaching an estimated 272 million (United Nations report, September 2019), the need for intercultural training is stronger than ever. Since its first edition, this handbook has evaluated the methodologies and suggested the best practices to...
6th edition. — Cengage Learning, 2017. — 514 p. — ISBN: 978-1-305-64895-1. This field-leading text puts psychological theories and concepts into a cross-cultural framework that invites you to discover, question, challenge, and ultimately understand the relationship between culture and psychology through the exploration of such topics as changing gender roles, sexuality, health,...
2nd ed. — Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 618 p. — ISBN: 9781108340489. Sociocultural psychology is a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This international overview of the field provides an antireductionist and comprehensive account of how experience and behavior emerge from human action with cultural materials...
Lawrence & Wishart Ltd, 1990. — 240 p. This collection of essays addresses the issues and concerns raised by the emphasis on society not as a series of homogeneous interlocking blocks, but as a plethora of different, sometimes overlapping and often conflicting communities. Reflecting, for example, on the experience of the GLC's attempt to create a new "majority of minorities"...
Allyn & Bacon, 2009. — 384 p. — ISBN: 0205665691. Shiraev and Levy provide a comprehensive review of theories and research in cross-cultural psychology within a critical thinking framework for examining, analyzing, and evaluating psychological data. This book introduces the field of cross-cultural psychology, discusses basic methodology for cross-cultural research, and explores...
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 447 p. Despite the recognized importance of cultural diversity in understanding the modern world, the emerging science of cognitive psychology has relied far more on experimental psychology, neurobiology, and computer science than on cultural anthropology for its models of how we think. In this exciting new book, anthropologist Bradd Shore has...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 1130 p. The goal of cultural psychology is to explain the ways in which human cultural constructions — for example, rituals, stereotypes, and meanings — organize and direct human acting, feeling, and thinking in different social contexts. A rapidly growing, international field of scholarship, cultural psychology is ready for an...
Cambridge University Press 2007. — 729 p. This handbook provides a representative international overview of the state of our contemporary knowledge in sociocultural psychology – as a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and social sciences and the humanities. Since the 1980s, the field of psychology has encountered the growth of a new discipline – cultural...
SAGE Publications Ltd., 2014. — 304 p. An Invitation to Cultural Psychology looks at the everyday life worlds of human beings through the lens of a new synthetic perspective in cultural psychology – that of semiotic dynamics. Based on historical work from many different fields in the social and behavioural sciences, and the humanities too, this perspective applied to cultural...
SAGE Publications Ltd., 2014. — 304 p. An Invitation to Cultural Psychology looks at the everyday life worlds of human beings through the lens of a new synthetic perspective in cultural psychology – that of semiotic dynamics. Based on historical work from many different fields in the social and behavioural sciences, and the humanities too, this perspective applied to cultural...
Brussel: Koninklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen, 2009. — 68 p. Van Binsbergen Wim M. J. Expressions of Traditional Wisdom from Africa and Beyond: A Study in Intercultural Epistemology (In English) The Resilience of Wisdom as a Topic in Modern Thought and Science. In Search of Traditional Wisdom. The Dilemma of Expression in Wisdom. "Tacit Modern Unwisdom". On the...
Rodopi, 2013. — 332 p. — (Cross/Cultures 157). Borders separate but also connect self and other, and literary texts not only enact these bordering processes, but form part of such processes. This book gestures towards a borderless world, stepping, as it were, with thousand-mile boots from south to north (even across the Atlantic), from South Africa to Scandinavia. It also shows...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2001. — 384 p. Crossing cultures can be a stimulating and rewarding adventure. It can also be a stressful and bewildering experience. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of Furnham and Bochner's classic Culture Shock (1986) examines the psychological and social processes involved in intercultural contact, including learning new culture-specific...
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