Is Culture a Problem for Social Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21206363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Y Kashima (0000-0003-3627-3273, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-115 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-8447 • E-ISSN: 1940-8455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/irqr.2008.1.1.103 |
| OpenAlex | W2224752094 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
Culture has been regarded as an anathema to psychology as an empiricist research tradition. Despite the explosive growth of research on culture and psychology over the last decade of the 20 th century and its importance in Asian social psychology, the ontological and epistemological tension between psychology as a science and psychology as a cultural/historical discipline introduced in the writings of the thinkers of the Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment still lingers on in the contemporary discourse of psychology. Clifford Geertz once ominously suggested that cultural psychology may have chewed more than it can. In this paper, the interpretive turn in social science as exemplified by writings of Charles Taylor and Paul Ricoeur is reviewed and discussed how it may impinge on the practice of Asian social psychology as an empirical science in methodological, epistemological, and ontological respects. It is argued here that the current practice of Asian social psychology is largely, though not entirely, free of the challenges mounted by these theorists, and that Asian social psychology has an advantage of not encumbered by this traditional tension due to a monist ontology that is prevalent in Asia
Asian psychology · Critical psychology · Cultural psychology · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Philosophy of psychology · Social science · Sociology · Theoretical psychology · Community Health and Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Philosophy · Social Representations and Identity
Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge
Perspectives on socially shared cognition.
Social Network Analysis
Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology)
The theoretical status of latent variables.
Three approaches to the psychology of culture
Interpretive social science
Social representations
The psychology of practice and the practice of the three psychologies
Monocultural and cross-cultural indigenous approaches
Conceptions of Culture and Person for Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |