ABSTRACT
It would appear that in global psychology, as in the bigger tent of psychology as a whole, certain defining debates recur, from which emerge a clutch of alternative paradigms, each with its own ideas about the nature and scope of the subject. I refer in part here to welldocumented (in this book and in others) alternative paradigms such as cross-cultural psychology (see Chapter 1) and cultural psychology (see Chapter 5). Some who align themselves with one or other of these alternatives habitually favour the existence of culturally universal human psychological capacities or behaviour patterns (see Chapter 1). Others emphasise cultural diversity in human behaviour (see Chapter 5).
