Fundamental Questions in Cross-cultural Psychology

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

• ISBN13: 9780521760157
• ISBN10: 0521760151
• Format: Hardcover
• 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.

Author Biography

Fons J. R. van de Vijver is Professor of Cross-Cultural Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Tilburg University. Athanasios Chasiotis is Associate Professor of Cross-Cultural Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Tilburg University. Seger M. Breugelmans is Assistant Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Tilburg University.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. viii
List of tables	p. x
List of contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Setting the stage	p. 7
Fundamental questions of cross-cultural psychology	p. 9
Explanation of cross-cultural differences	p. 35
Past and present of cross-cultural psychology	p. 37
The continuing challenge of discovering psychological 'order' across cultures	p. 64
The ecocultural framework: a stocktaking	p. 95
Frameworks for explaining cross-cultural variance: a meta-analytic examination of their usefulness	p. 115
The relationship between individual and culture	p. 135
Methods for studying culture	p. 163
A fourfold conceptual framework for cultural and cross-cultural psychology: relativism, construct universalism, repertoire universalism and absolutism	p. 165
About chicken and eggs: four methods for investigating culture-behaviour links	p. 190
Qualitative and mixed methods research in cross-cultural psychology	p. 214
Bias and real differences in cross-cultural differences: neither friends nor foes	p. 235
The role of development	p. 259
Cross-cultural research in the cultural-historical activity theory tradition	p. 261
Self, family and culture: what is common, what changes?	p. 288
Biology, culture and development: conceptual and methodological considerations	p. 312
Differences and universals in families across cultures	p. 341
An epigenetic view on culture: what evolutionary developmental psychology has to offer for cross-cultural psychology	p. 376
Concepts of culture	p. 405
Cross-cultural differences as meaning systems	p. 407
Ulysses returns: lessons from the logbook of a cross-cultural wayfarer	p. 442
Values: cultural and individual	p. 463
The cultural contexts of organisational behaviour	p. 494
Rethinking culture and the self: some basic principles and their implications	p. 518
Conclusion	p. 543
Research on behaviour-and-culture: current ideas and future projections	p. 545
Index	p. 579
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