Pursuit of Meaning: Advances in Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Pursuit of Meaning

Advances in Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology

Edited by: Jürgen Straub , Doris Weidemann , Carlos Kölbl and Barbara Zielke

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2006

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Kultur- und Medientheorie

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The fields of cross-cultural and cultural psychology both acknowledge the role of `culture' for the constitution of a meaningful practice. There are notable differences as well as remarkable commonalities between nomologically oriented cross-cultural psychology on the one hand and interpretive cultural psychology on the other. Contributions to this book discuss recent theoretical and methodological approaches from both fields in order to explore their joint potential for an advancement of the concept of culture, for the theoretical conceptualization and methodical completion of comparative cultural studies and the scientific understanding of cultural difference.

This volume includes contributions by Ernest E. Boesch, Kenneth J. Gergen, Rom Harré, Gustav Jahoda and Jaan Valsiner.

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Straub Jürgen :

Jürgen Straub (Prof. Dr. phil.) ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Sozialtheorie und Sozialpsychologie an der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaft der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Mitglied im Board des Research Departments »Center for Religious Studies« (CERES) sowie einer der Mentoren der Mercator Research Group »Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge: Production and Transfer«. Er ist stellvertretender Vorsitzender des internationalen Projekts »Humanismus im Zeitalter der Globalisierung« am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen (KWI) und Fellow des Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR).

Weidemann Doris :

Doris Weidemann (Prof. Dr.) lehrt Interkulturelle

Kommunikation an der Westsächsischen Hochschule Zwickau. Ihr Forschungsinteresse gilt internationaler Wissenschaftskooperation und chinesischer Kulturpsychologie.

Kölbl Carlos :

Carlos Kölbl (Dr. phil.) lehrt Psychologie an der Universität Hannover. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind: Geschichtsbewusstsein, Entwicklungs- und Kulturpsychologie, berufliches Selbstverständnis von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern.

Zielke Barbara :

Barbara Zielke (Dr. phil.), Diplom-Psychologin, lehrt Psychologie an der TU-Chemnitz (Fachbereich Interkulturelle Kommunikation), der Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt (Cultural Studies) sowie der Fern-Hochschule Hamburg (Pflegemanagement). Ihre Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Sozialer Konstruktionismus, Kulturpsychologie, Identitätstheorie, trans-/interkulturelle Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie. Sie ist Mitherausgeberin der psychologischen Fachzeitschriften »Journal für Psychologie« und »Psychologie & Gesellschaftskritik«.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Jürgen Straub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Psychology, Culture, and the Pursuit of Meaning: an Introduction Jürgen Straub and Doris Weidemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
Glimpses of the Past and Current Perspectives
From Cognition to Culture: Cultural Psychology and Social Constructionism as Post-Cognitivist Movements in Psychology Barbara Zielke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Whither Cross-Cultural Psychology? Gustav Jahoda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
A Meditation on Message and Meaning Ernest E. Boesch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
Understanding as Relationship: Cultural Psychology in Global Context Kenneth J. Gergen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
Analyzing Social Interactions in a ‘Glocal’ Society: Problems and Possibilities of a Cultural Psychology Ulrike Popp-Baier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
Culture and the ‘Dialogical Self’: Toward a Secular Cultural Psychology of Religion Jacob A. V. Belzen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	129
Universals and the Psychology of Music: An Exemplar for Cultural Studies Rom Harré Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Methodology and Comparison
Understanding Cultural Differences: Relational Hermeneutics and Comparative Analysis in Cultural Psychology Jürgen Straub Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
Historically Structured Sampling (HSS): How can Psychology’s Methodology Become Tuned in to the Reality of the Historical Nature of Cultural Psychology? Jaan Valsiner and Tatsuya Sato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
Beyond the Dilemma of Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology: Resolving the Tension between Nomothetic and Idiographic Approaches Hede Helfrich-Hölter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
The Solution of Fundamental Methodological Problems in Cross- Cultural Psychology by Guaranteeing the Equivalence of Measurements Patricia Simon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
Methods and Instruments
Quantitative and Qualitative Cross-Cultural Comparison: The Role of Cultural Metrics Wolfgang Wagner, Nicole Kronberger, José Valencia and Maria Lucia Duarte Pereira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
Exploring Intercultural Learning: Potential and Limits of the Structure Formation Technique Doris Weidemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	319
How to Orient Yourself in Balinese Space: Combining Ethnographic and Psychological Methods for the Study of Cognitive Processes Jürg Wassmann and Pierre R. Dasen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	351
Rituals of Manliness in Western Films of the 90’s: Psychoanalysis as a Method of Cultural Comparison Hans-Dieter König Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	377
Self and Development in Culture
Negotiating the Middle Ground Between the Ostensible and Shared Horizons: A Dynamic Approach to Cross-Cultural Communication about Human Development Robert Serpell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	393
Ethnic Self-Understanding: Ethnic Cultural Psychology as an Action toward Culture and Ethnicity Wei-Lun Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	435
Cultural Values Regarding Children and Family: The Cultural Meaning of Parent-Child Relationships Gisela Trommsdorff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	465
Development as Enculturation and Active Formation Revisited Carlos Kölbl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	495
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Cultural Psychology; Cultural Psychology; Cultural Studies; Cultural Studies; Cross-cultural Psychology; Cross-cultural Psychology; Interpretive Psychology; Interpretive Psychology; Intercultural Communication; Intercultural Communication; Culture; Culture; Psychology; Psychology

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