ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2003, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (2): 220-226.

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From Cross-cultural Psychology to Cultural Constructionist Psychology: The Evolution of the Cultural Consciousness in Psychology

Yang Liping   

  1. School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210097
  • Received:2002-03-20 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2003-03-15 Published:2003-03-15
  • Contact: Yang Liping

Abstract: The cultural consciousness in Psychology has three forms. The cultural adventure in cross-cultural psychology served as a handmaiden to the prevailing enterprise of establishing general principles of behavior. Cultural psychology tends to hold culture as the birthing site for psychological processes, and appeals to theories for “cultural sensitivity”. In cultural constructionist psychology, the psyche is looked as “ the cultural infusion ”or “the cultural construction”, and the processes of the construction are explored. The different characters of each form of the cultural consciousness in Psychology will be examined in this paper, and each will be given a short comment on it.

Key words: cross-cultural psychology, cultural psychology, cultural constructionist psychology

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