Fundamental Questions in Cross-cultural Psychology

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

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ISBN: 9780521760157 | 0521760151
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Copyright: 4/29/2011

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

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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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