PSYC1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Richard Shweder, Cultural Psychology, Organizational Culture

• School: ANU
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1004
• Professor: Professor Michael Platow

Document Summary

Cultural psychology is the study of how cultures reflect and shape the psychological processes of their members. The main tenet of cultural psychology is that mind and culture are inseparable and mutually constitutive, meaning that people are shaped by their culture and their culture is also shaped by them. As richard shweder, one of the major proponents of the field, writes, "cultural psychology is the study of the way cultural traditions and social practices regulate, express, and transform the human psyche, resulting less in psychic unity for humankind than in ethnic divergences in mind, self, and emotion. Is psychology weird (western educated industrialised rich developed): could it be more cross-cultural, resear(cid:272)hers assu(cid:373)e they are utilisi(cid:374)g (cid:862)sta(cid:374)dard su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts(cid:863) (cid:449)he(cid:374) they sa(cid:373)ple fro(cid:373) the. University educated undergraduate population: represent small percentage of world population and cultural diversity, theory development and triangulation, number of examples: weird outliers (time, emotional display rules, interpersonal space, verbal/non-verbal)