Carl Ratner

Cultural Psychology

A Perspective on Psychological Functioning and Social Reform

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Carl Ratner's new book deepens our understanding of psychology by emphasizing the role that cultural factors, such as social institutions, artifacts, and cultural concepts play in psychological functioning. The author demonstrates the impact of culture on stimulating and structuring emotion, personality, perception, cognition, memory, sexuality, and mental illness. Examples from interdisciplinary social science research illuminate a sophisticated dialectical relationship between cultural factors and psychological phenomena. Written in an engaging style, the book articulates a new theory, "macro cultural psychology", and a qualitative methodology for investigating the cultural origins, characteristics, and functions of psychological phenomena. Ratner explains how this cultural perspective can be used to enhance psychological growth, illuminate directions for social reform, and how social reform can enhance psychological functioning, and vice versa. Cultural Psychology critically examines several prominent psychological approaches including social constructionism, feminism, hermeneutics, psychobiology, evolutionary, cross-cultural, ecological, and mainstream psychology. The book articulates a theory of macro culture that emphasizes the political dimension of culture and psychology. Intended for students, researchers, and practitioners in psychology, education, psychotherapy, history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, and policy makers and practitioners in public health and social service who are interested in understanding cultural aspects of psychology. The book is an appropriate text for courses in cross-cultural or community psychology, social work, social theory, and critical thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Psychology Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780805854787
• ISBN-10: 0805854789
• Artikelnr.: 22063243

Autorenporträt

Authored by Ratner, Carl

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Part I: Psychology, Culture, Politics, Science.
Introduction to Macro Cultural Psychology. Macro Culture. Part II:
Principles of Macro Cultural Psychology. The Dialectical Integration of
Psychological Phenomena and Macro Cultural Factors. Part III: Applications
of Macro Cultural Psychology to Research Methodology, Social Reform, and
Personal Growth. Research Methodology for Macro Cultural Psychology. Macro
Cultural Psychology, Social Reform, and Psychological Change. Macro
Cultural Psychology and Personal Growth. Scientific and Political
Deficiencies of Psychological Theories/Constructs That Minimize Macro
Culture. Epilogue: A Philosophy of Science and a Social Philosophy for
Macro Cultural Psychology.

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1: Theory.- 1. Cultural Psychology from the Perspective of Activity Theory.- 2. Individualistic Approaches to Agency: A Critique.- 2: Method.- 3. Implications of Activity Theory for Cultural Psychological Research.- 4. Interviewing Techniques for Eliciting Cultural-Psychological Information.- 5. A Procedure for Analyzing Cultural Themes in Verbal Accounts.- 6. An Empirical Investigation into the Cultural Psychology of Children's Moral Reasoning.- References.