ABSTRACT
This volume contains contributions from 24 internationally known scholars covering a broad spectrum of interests in cross-cultural theory and research. This breadth is reflected in the diversity of the topics covered in the volume, which include theoretical approaches to cross-cultural research, the dimensions of national cultures and their measurement, ecological and economic foundations of culture, cognitive, perceptual and emotional manifestations of culture, and bicultural and intercultural processes.
In addition to the individual chapters, the volume contains a dialog among 14 experts in the field on a number of issues of concern in cross-cultural research, including the relation of psychological studies of culture to national development and national policies, the relationship between macro structures of a society and shared cognitions, the integration of structural and process models into a coherent theory of culture, how personal experiences and cultural traditions give rise to intra-cultural variation, whether culture can be validly measured by self-reports, the new challenges that confront cultural psychology, and whether psychology should strive to eliminate culture as an explanatory variable.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section 1|106 pages
Theoretical Approaches
chapter 1|21 pages
A Dynamic Constructivist Approach to Culture
chapter 2|28 pages
Understanding Cultural Syndrome Effects on What and How We Think
chapter 4|13 pages
An Intersubjective Consensus Approach to Culture
section 2|80 pages
Dimensions of National Cultures and their Measurement
chapter 6|17 pages
Cultural Mapping of Beliefs about the World and their Application to a Social Psychology Involving Culture
chapter 9|24 pages
Nagging Problems and Modest Solutions in Cross-Cultural Research
section 3|69 pages
Ecological and Economic Foundations of Culture
section 4|69 pages
Psychological Manifestations of Culture
chapter 18|15 pages
Looking Forward, Looking Back
section 5|102 pages
Bicultural and Intercultural Process
chapter 21|18 pages
Buffering Acculturative Stress and Facilitating Cultural Adaptation
chapter 23|17 pages
Self-Conscious Emotions as Emotional Systems
chapter 24|18 pages
A Cultural Analysis of Harmony and Conflict
section 6|38 pages
Integration and Reflection
chapter 26|10 pages
Society, Culture, and the Person
section 7|40 pages
A Dialogue