A Psychology of Culture
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Beschreibung
This thought-provoking treatise explores the essential functions that culture fulfills in human life in response to core psychological, physiological, and existential needs. It synthesizes diverse strands of empirical and theoretical knowledge to trace the development of culture as a source of morality, self-esteem, identity, and meaning as well as a driver of domination and upheaval. Extended examples from past and ongoing hostilities also spotlight the resilience of culture in the aftermath of disruption and trauma, and the possibility of reconciliation between conflicting cultures. The stimulating insights included here have far-reaching implications for psychology, education, intergroup relations, politics, and social policy.
Included in the coverage:
· Culture as shared meanings and interpretations.
· Culture as an ontological prescription of how to “be” and “how to live.”
· Cultural worldviews as immortality ideologies.
- · Culture and the need for a “world of meaning in which to act.”
- · Cultural trauma and indigenous people.
- · Constructing situations that optimize the potential for positive intercultural interaction.
- · Anxiety and the Human Condition.
- · Anxiety and Self Esteem.
- · Culture and Human Needs.
A Psychology of Culture takes an uncommon tour of the human condition of interest to clinicians, educators, and practitioners, students of culture and its role and effects in human life, and students in nursing, medicine, anthropology, social work, family studies, sociology, counseling, and psychology. It is especially suitable as a graduate text.
Looks at culture and its function through the lens of a unique and empirically supported theory that emerged from social psychologyIdentifies core human needs and cultural responses to satisfying those needsProvides a micro, meso, and macro perspective
Looks at culture and its function through the lens of a unique and empirically supported theory that emerged from social psychology Identifies core human needs and cultural responses to satisfying those needs Provides a micro, meso, and macro perspective
Autor*in
Michael B. Salzman
Themen in »A Psychology of Culture«
Terror Management Theory construction of an intercultural sensitizer cultural anxiety-buffer cultural empathy cultural identity developement cultural recovery cultural trauma culture in context decolonization existential anxiety human development inter-cultural conflict inter-cultural cooperation internalized oppression perspectives of Aristotle