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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015]
©2006
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Kultur- und Medientheorie
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Physical Description:1 online resource (518 p.)
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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