Culture in Psychology

by Squire,Corinne

• ISBN13: 9780415217033
• ISBN10: 0415217032
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Culture in Psychologybreaks new ground by attempting to understand the complexity and specificity of cultural identities today. It rejects the idea that Western culture is a standard, or that any culture is homogenous and stable. Equally, it rejects the notion that culture is a mechanism that enhances reproductive fitness. Instead, it alerts psychologists to the many forms of 'foreignness' that research should address and to alliances psychology can make with other disciplines such as anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis. Part one explores the origins of the new 'cultural psychology' in social change movements, in fields such as ethnography and cultural studies, and as a response to evolutionary psychology. Part two looks at how people create and sustain the meanings of social categories of 'class', gender, 'race' and ethnicity, while the third part examines the interaction between written and visual representations in popular culture and everyday lived culture. The final part examinesthe idiosyncratic significance cultural forms have for individuals and their unconscious meanings.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	xiii
PART I Reconfiguring psychology and culture	1	(44)
Introduction	1	(16)
Corinne Squire
More than simply talk and text: psychologists as cultural ethnographers	17	(14)
Christine Griffin
Gender, genes and genetics: from Darwin to the human genome	31	(14)
Lynne Segal
PART II Culture and social formations	45	(40)
Introduction	45	(2)
Cultural contestations in practice: white boys and the racialisation of masculinities	47	(12)
Stephen Frosh
Ann Phoenix
Rob Pattman
White girls and women in the contemporary United States: supporting or subverting race and gender domination?	59	(14)
Michelle Fine
Abigail J. Stewart
Alyssa N. Zucker
Constructing racism: discourse, culture and subjectivity	73	(12)
Bipasha Ahmed
PART III Culture and representations	85	(48)
Introduction	85	(2)
Good, bad or dangerous to know: representations of femininity in narrative accounts of PMS	87	(13)
Jane M. Ussher
Myra Hunter
Susannah J. Browne
The tyranny of the `six-pack'? Understanding men's responses to representations of the male body in popular culture	100	(18)
Rosalind Gill
Karen Henwood
Carl Mclean
Changing youth: an exploration of visual and textual cultural identifications	118	(15)
Harriette Marshall
Anne Woollett
PART IV Culture and the emotions	133	(42)
Introduction	133	(2)
Culture, psychology and transitional space	135	(12)
Candida Yates
Shelley Day Sclater
Culture and emotions: depression among Pakistanis	147	(16)
Rabia Malik
The impact of culture in the face of genocide: struggling between a silenced home culture and a foreign host culture	163	(12)
Erika Apfelbaum
Conclusion	175	(4)
Valerie Walkerdine
Index	179