Fundamental Questions in Cross-cultural Psychology

by Edited by Fons J. R. van de Vijver , Athanasios Chasiotis , Seger M. Breugelmans

• ISBN13: 9780521757515
• ISBN10: 0521757517
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A timely evaluation of cross-cultural psychology, examining the fundamental questions of the discipline from a number of different perspectives.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Setting the Stage

Fundamental questions of cross-cultural psychology

Explanation of Cross-Cultural Differences

Past and present of cross-cultural psychology

The continuing challenge of discovering psychological 'order' across cultures

The ecocultural framework: a stocktaking

Frameworks for explaining cross-cultural variance: a meta-analytic examination of their usefulness

The relationship between individual and culture

Methods for Studying Culture

A fourfold conceptual framework for cultural and cross-cultural psychology: relativism, construct universalism, repertoire universalism, and absolutism

About chicken and eggs: four methods for investigating culture-behaviour links

Qualitative and mixed methods research in cross-cultural psychology

Bias and real differences in cross-cultural differences: neither friends nor foes Fons

The Role of Development

Cross-cultural research in the cultural historical activity theory tradition

Self, family, and culture: what is common, what changes?

Biology, culture, and development: conceptual and methodological considerations

Differences and universals in families across cultures

An epigenetic view on culture: what evolutionary developmental psychology has to offer for cross-cultural psychology

Concepts of Culture

Cross-cultural differences as meaning systems

Ulysses returns: lessons from the logbook of a cross-cultural wayfarer

Values: cultural and individual

The cultural contexts of organisational behaviour

Rethinking culture and the self: some basic principles and their implications

Conclusion

Research on behavior-and-culture: current ideas and future projections

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