Cultural Psychology, Cross-cultural Psychology, and Indigenous Psychology.
Ratner, Carl.
Cultural Psychology, Cross-cultural Psychology, and Indigenous Psychology. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (122 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction∗ -- Cultural Psychology -- The Cultural Nature of Psychology -- Human Culture and Psychology -- The Cultural Basis of Psychology -- Darwinism and Macro Cultural Psychology -- Vygotsky's Cultural-Historical Psychology -- The Cultural-Historical Character of Psychology -- Concrete Culture -- Dialectical Interrelationship of Cultural Factors -- The Political Nature of Culture -- The Dialectical Relation between Cultural Factors and Psychology/Subjectivity/ Consciousness -- Mediational Means -- Structuring Structures -- Fatalism -- Adolescence -- Personality -- The Culturally Concrete Character of Psychology -- The Progressive Politics of Macro Cultural Psychology -- Cross-Cultural Psychology -- Social Life from the Vantage Point of Cross-Cultural Psychology -- The Cultural Variable in Cross-Cultural Psychology -- Critique of the Cultural Variable -- Abstraction -- Critique of Truly Abstract Cultural Variables -- Critique of False Concreteness -- Cross-Cultural Psychology's Conception of Psychological Phenomena -- Cross-Cultural Psychology's Treatment of the Relation between Cultural and Psychological Variables -- The Historical Development of Positivistic Cross-Cultural Psychology -- Integrating Cross-Cultural and Cultural Psychology? -- A Dialectical Conception of Analysis and Cultural Comparison -- Generalizations -- A Concrete Analysis of Abstractions -- Dialectical vs. Positivistic Abstractions -- Political Implications of Cross-Cultural Psychology -- Indigenous Psychology -- Analysis of the Meanings of Indigenous Psychology -- Indigenous Psychology as the Actual Culturally Organized Psychology of a People (IP1) -- The Local Understanding of a People's Psychology (IP ) -- Indigenous Psychology as Cultural-Psychological Theory and Methodology (IP3). Principles of Indigenous Psychology -- The Epistemologicalr Relativism of the Insider Perspective Is the Defining Feature, or Essence of Indigenous Psychology -- Inadequacies of Indigenous Psychology as a Cultural Psychological Theory -- Eclectic Attempts to Correct Indigenous Psychology -- Scientific Cultural-Psychological Theory and Methodology -- The Critical Realist Philosophy of Science of Cultural Psychology -- A Realistic, Universal, General Cultural- Psychological Theory and Methodology -- Scientific Cultural Psychology and Indigenous Psychology -- Scientific Cultural Psychology Incorporates Indigenous Concepts as Explanatory Constructs of Psychology -- The Politics of Indigenous Psychology -- Identity Politics -- References -- Index.
9781620816042
Ethnopsychology.
Social psychology.
Electronic books.
GN502 -- .R3735 2008eb
155.8
Cultural Psychology, Cross-cultural Psychology, and Indigenous Psychology. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (122 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction∗ -- Cultural Psychology -- The Cultural Nature of Psychology -- Human Culture and Psychology -- The Cultural Basis of Psychology -- Darwinism and Macro Cultural Psychology -- Vygotsky's Cultural-Historical Psychology -- The Cultural-Historical Character of Psychology -- Concrete Culture -- Dialectical Interrelationship of Cultural Factors -- The Political Nature of Culture -- The Dialectical Relation between Cultural Factors and Psychology/Subjectivity/ Consciousness -- Mediational Means -- Structuring Structures -- Fatalism -- Adolescence -- Personality -- The Culturally Concrete Character of Psychology -- The Progressive Politics of Macro Cultural Psychology -- Cross-Cultural Psychology -- Social Life from the Vantage Point of Cross-Cultural Psychology -- The Cultural Variable in Cross-Cultural Psychology -- Critique of the Cultural Variable -- Abstraction -- Critique of Truly Abstract Cultural Variables -- Critique of False Concreteness -- Cross-Cultural Psychology's Conception of Psychological Phenomena -- Cross-Cultural Psychology's Treatment of the Relation between Cultural and Psychological Variables -- The Historical Development of Positivistic Cross-Cultural Psychology -- Integrating Cross-Cultural and Cultural Psychology? -- A Dialectical Conception of Analysis and Cultural Comparison -- Generalizations -- A Concrete Analysis of Abstractions -- Dialectical vs. Positivistic Abstractions -- Political Implications of Cross-Cultural Psychology -- Indigenous Psychology -- Analysis of the Meanings of Indigenous Psychology -- Indigenous Psychology as the Actual Culturally Organized Psychology of a People (IP1) -- The Local Understanding of a People's Psychology (IP ) -- Indigenous Psychology as Cultural-Psychological Theory and Methodology (IP3). Principles of Indigenous Psychology -- The Epistemologicalr Relativism of the Insider Perspective Is the Defining Feature, or Essence of Indigenous Psychology -- Inadequacies of Indigenous Psychology as a Cultural Psychological Theory -- Eclectic Attempts to Correct Indigenous Psychology -- Scientific Cultural-Psychological Theory and Methodology -- The Critical Realist Philosophy of Science of Cultural Psychology -- A Realistic, Universal, General Cultural- Psychological Theory and Methodology -- Scientific Cultural Psychology and Indigenous Psychology -- Scientific Cultural Psychology Incorporates Indigenous Concepts as Explanatory Constructs of Psychology -- The Politics of Indigenous Psychology -- Identity Politics -- References -- Index.
9781620816042
Ethnopsychology.
Social psychology.
Electronic books.
GN502 -- .R3735 2008eb
155.8