ABSTRACT
Challenging cross-culturalism Chapter 1 introduced the dominant approach in the field of global psychology – cross-cultural psychology. Since one aim of Part 1 of this book is to discuss controversies in global psychology, it seems fitting to conclude it by considering some ideas that challenge the received wisdom of cross-culturalism. In global psychology, as in the discipline as a
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whole (where behaviourists, humanists and psychoanalysts disagree in perpetuity), not everyone subscribes to the same paradigm. In other words, there is more than one view about the discipline’s proper subject matter and the best method for studying it. All of which spawns continual epistemological and methodological debates. True, cross-cultural psychology has a coherent position in these debates and many are in agreement with them (see Chapter 1). Yet there are those who dissent.
