Culture Reexamined Broadening Our Understanding of Social and Evolutionary Influences

by Cohen, Adam B.

• ISBN13: 9781433815874
• ISBN10: 1433815877
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-15
• Publisher: American Psychological Association

Summary

The study of culture in psychology has a distinguished history and has progressed in many important ways, but also has some limitations. We know much about East-West differences in self-construal and cognitive style, for example, yet we know very little about the multitude of cultural influences that shape who we are and are shaped by who we are.

This book brings readers from all fields of psychology up to date on the newest and most exciting avenues in the study of culture in psychology by focusing on different forms of culture. The book will encourage psychologists to think about a wider set of cultures than they traditionally have, such as knowledge, social class, age, politics, sex and gender, religion, within-country regions and frontiers. It also points readers to consider processes that give shape to culture, such as settlement patterns and evolution.

Author Biography

Adam B. Cohen, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at Arizona State University.
 
Dr. Cohen's research fuses cultural and evolutionary approaches to religion. He is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed articles (including "Many Forms of Culture," published in the American Psychologist in 2009).
 
He is associate editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences and is a former associate editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
 

Table of Contents

Contributors

Foreword 
Hazel Rose Markus

Introduction 
Adam B. Cohen

1. Professional and Disciplinary Cultures 
   Chi-yue Chiu, Letty Y.-Y. Kwan, and Shyhnan Liou
2. Generational Cultures 
   Brittany Gentile, W. Keith Campbell, and Jean M. Twenge
3. Culture and Social Class 
   P. J. Henry
4. Regional Culture 
   Joseph A. Vandello, Vanessa E. Hettinger, and Kenneth Michniewicz
5. Frontier Settlement and Cultural Change 
   Shinobu Kitayama, Michael E. W. Varnum, and A. Timur Sevincer
6. Political Culture and Democracy 
   Ariel Malka
7. Food and Culture 
   Benoît Monin and Lauren M. Szczurek
8. Gendered Sexual Cultures 
   Angela G. Pirlott and David P. Schmitt
9. Religions as Cultural Solutions to Social Living 
   Azim F. Shariff, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, and Richard Sosis

Index

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