Indigenous and Cultural Psychology by Kim, Uichol; Yang, Kuo-Shu; Hwang, Kwang-Kuo;

Long description:

It was once assumed that the bedrock concepts of psychology held true for all the world’s peoples. More recently, post-modern approaches to research have expanded on these Western models, building a psychology that takes into account the sociopolitical, historical, religious, ecological, and other indigenous factors that make every culture, as well as every person as agents of their own actions.

Indigenous and Cultural Psychology surveys psychological and behavioral phenomena in native context in various developing and developed countries, with particular focus on Asia. An international team of 28 experts clarifies culture-specific concepts (such as paternalism and the Japanese concept of amae), models integrative methods of study, and dispels typical misconceptions about the field and its goals. The results reflect culturally sound frames of reference while remaining rigorous, systematic, and verifiable. These approaches provide a basis for the discovery of true psychological universals.

Among the topics featured:

- Scientific and philosophical bases of indigenous psychology

- Comparisons of indigenous, cultural, and cross-cultural psychologies

- Socialization, parent-child relationship, and family

- The private and public self: concepts from East Asia, Europe, and the Americas

- Interpersonal relationships: concepts from East Asia, Europe,, and the U.S.

- Factors promoting educational achievement and organizational effectiveness in Asia

- The growth and indigenization of psychology in developing and developed countries

- Are any values, attitudes, beliefs and traits universal? Cross-national comparisons

- The potential for indigenous psychology to lead to a global psychology

With this book, the editors have captured a growing field at a crucial stage in its evolution. Indigenous and Cultural Psychology benefits students and researchers on twolevels, offering groundbreaking findings on understudied concepts, and signaling future directions in universal knowledge.

Indigenous psychology is an emerging new field in psychology, focusing on psychological universals in social, cultural, and ecological contexts. This book provides a starting point for psychologists who wish to understand various cultures from their own ecological, historial, philosophical, and religious perspectives.

Table of Contents:

Theoretical and Methodological Issues.- Contributions to Indigenous and Cultural Psychology.- The Scientific Foundation of Indigenous and Cultural Psychology.- The Importance of Constructive Realism for the Indigenous Psychologies Approach.- Constructive Realism and Confucian Relationalism.- From Decolonizing Psychology to the Development of a Cross-Indigenous Perspective in Methodology.- Family and Socialization.- Parental Ethnotheories of Child Development.- Close Interpersonal Relationships among Japanese.- Affect and Early Moral Socialization: Some Insights and Contributions from Indigenous Psychological Studies in Taiwan.- Cultures Are Like All Other Cultures, Like Some Other Cultures, Like No Other Culture.- Cognitive Processes.- The Mutual Relevance of Indigenous Psychology and Morality.- Naïve Dialecticism and the Tao of Chinese Thought.- Indian Perspectives on Cognition.- Self and Personality.- Indigenous Personality Research.- An Historic-Psycho-Socio-Cultural Look at the Self in Mexico.- The Chinese Conception of the Self.- Naïve Psychology of Koreans’ Interpersonal Mind and Behavior in Close Relationships.- Application.- Humanism-Materialism.- Chinese Conceptions of Justice and Reward Allocation.- Family, Parent-Child Relationship, and Academic Achievement in Korea.- Paternalism.- Creating Indigenous Psychologies.