Pursuit of Meaning : : Advances in Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology / / ed. by Barbara Zielke, Carlos Kölbl, Doris Weidemann, Jürgen Straub.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Belzen, Jacob A. V.,; Boesch, Ernest E.,; Dasen, Pierre R.,; Duarte Pereira, Maria Lucia,; Gergen, Kenneth J.,; Harré, Rom,; Helfrich-Hölter, Hede,; Jahoda, Gustav,; Kronberger, Nicole,; Kölbl, Carlos,; König, Hans-Dieter,; Lee, Wei-Lun,; Popp-Baier, Ulrike,; Sato, Tatsuya,; Serpell, Robert,; Simon, Patricia,; Straub, Jürgen,; Trommsdorff, Gisela,; Valencia, José,; Valsiner, Jaan,; Wagner, Wolfgang,; Wassmann, Jürg,; Weidemann, Doris,; Zielke, Barbara,
• HerausgeberIn: Kölbl, Carlos,; Straub, Jürgen,; Weidemann, Doris,; Zielke, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Kultur- und Medientheorie
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (518 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Psychology, Culture, and the Pursuit of Meaning: an Introduction -- Glimpses of the Past and Current Perspectives -- From Cognition to Culture: Cultural Psychology and Social Constructionism as Post-Cognitivist Movements in Psychology -- Whither Cross-Cultural Psychology? -- A Meditation on Message and Meaning -- Understanding as Relationship: Cultural Psychology in Global Context -- Analyzing Social Interactions in a ‘Glocal’ Society: Problems and Possibilities of a Cultural Psychology -- Culture and the ‘Dialogical Self’: Toward a Secular Cultural Psychology of Religion -- Universals and the Psychology of Music: An Exemplar for Cultural Studies -- Methodology and Comparison -- Understanding Cultural Differences: Relational Hermeneutics and Comparative Analysis in Cultural Psychology -- Historically Structured Sampling (HSS): How can Psychology’s Methodology Become Tuned in to the Reality of the Historical Nature of Cultural Psychology? -- Beyond the Dilemma of Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology: Resolving the Tension between Nomothetic and Idiographic Approaches -- The Solution of Fundamental Methodological Problems in Cross- Cultural Psychology by Guaranteeing the Equivalence of Measurements -- Methods and Instruments -- Quantitative and Qualitative Cross-Cultural Comparison: The Role of Cultural Metrics -- Exploring Intercultural Learning: Potential and Limits of the Structure Formation Technique -- How to Orient Yourself in Balinese Space: Combining Ethnographic and Psychological Methods for the Study of Cognitive Processes -- Rituals of Manliness in Western Films of the 90’s: Psychoanalysis as a Method of Cultural Comparison -- 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 -- Ethnic Self-Understanding: Ethnic Cultural Psychology as an Action toward Culture and Ethnicity -- Cultural Values Regarding Children and Family: The Cultural Meaning of Parent-Child Relationships -- Development as Enculturation and Active Formation Revisited -- Authors