2nd Edition

Cultural Issues in Psychology An Introduction to a Global Discipline

By Andrew Stevenson Copyright 2020
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers an engaging introduction to cultural and cross-cultural psychology and offers an interdisciplinary approach to the key research theories and controversies that impact on human behaviour in a global context. How is human behavior and experience intertwined with culture? From this starting point, this second edition of Cultural Issues in Psychology explores the role of culture... Read more
  1. How we got here: A short history of psychology across cultures
  2. Culture and its influence: Exploring a key concept in global psychology
  3. Cross-cultural Psychology: epistemology and ontology: Searching for human universals
  4. Cultural Psychology: epistemology and ontology: Alternative paradigms in global psychology
  5. Critical, Community and Indigenous Psychologies: What this chapter will teach you
  6. Culture, cognition and intellect: Thinking through cultures
  7. Culture, social cognition and social influence: Social psychology across cultures
  8. Culture and development: Childhood across cultures
  9. Culture and Psychopathology: Definitions, diagnoses and treatment across cultures
  10. Culture, acculturation, biculturalism and cosmopolitanism

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Biography

Andrew Stevenson is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He has been teaching Psychology since 1990 at a variety of levels, including A-Level and undergraduate. He now divides his time between writing, freelance training and lecturing.