PSYCO341 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cultural Psychology, Socratic Dialogue, Pre-Existence

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO341
• Professor: Cor Baerveldt

Document Summary

The issues he perceived can be traced clllll the way back to plato and the idea of psychic unity. It is not that we as psychologist haven"t looked at culture, it"s that we have been looking at it wrong. For example, cross-cultural psychology still seeks psychic unity rather than looking at the different cultures as separate entities of the same being. He sees cultural psychology as the study of intentional worlds, as it should be. Shweder argued against his own definition of platos ideas (as he was not a philosopher, he wasn"t even a psychologist - he was an ____). All of western philosophy is based on the works of platos, basically it is the reactions and rereactiosn to his work. Plato wanted to leave a legacy, but he still let his mentor be the centre of his righting.