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Understanding Culture - Theory, Research and Application

By Robert S. Wyer , Chi-yue Chiu , Ying-yi Hong

Book information

Publisher
Psychology Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9781848728080, 1848728085
LCC
HM621 .U59 2009
Open Library ID
OL22842908M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11581267 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
552\552
Library
Great Science Textbooks DVD Library 2007
Time added
2009-10-26 09:21:54
Культурология

Description

This volume contains contributions from 24 internationally known scholars covering a broad spectrum of interests in cross-cultural theory and research. This breadth is reflected in the diversity of the topics covered in the volume, which include theoretical approaches to cross-cultural research, the dimensions of national cultures and their measurement, ecological and economic foundations of culture, cognitive, perceptual and emotional manifestations of culture, and bicultural and intercultural processes.In addition to the individual chapters, the volume contains a dialog among 14 experts in the field on a number of issues of concern in cross-cultural research, including the relation of psychological studies of culture to national development and national policies, the relationship between macro structures of a society and shared cognitions, the integration of structural and process models into a coherent theory of culture, how personal experiences and cultural traditions give rise to intra-cultural variation, whether culture can be validly measured by self-reports, the new challenges that confront cultural psychology, and whether psychology should strive to eliminate culture as an explanatory variable.

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