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- Title
A Cultural Psychological Analysis of the Interplay between Culture and Individuals.
- Authors
Hamamura, Takeshi
- Abstract
Culture has been a largely neglected concept in psychology. For a long time, psychologists have regarded many mental processes behind humans' social behaviors as non-cultural. Such a view, however, has been transformed within the last few decades, first by a small number of studies showing the profoundly cultural nature of mental processes, and then by a larger number of studies demonstrating the complex interplay between culture and the mind. This paper introduces a cultural psychological analysis of social behaviors. The paper first reviews research revealing the ways in which even some of the most basic mental processes, such as our sense of self or the ways in which we understand the world, are cultural. These considerations do not preclude individuality in social behaviors. Individuals participating in the same national culture vary greatly in their mental processes, and consideration of this issue requires the examination of cultures within the single national culture and the dynamic interplay between culture and the mind. Although the perspective introduced here suggests the profoundly cultural nature of social behaviors, these behaviors are also deeply personal, reflecting idiosyncratic ways in which individuals negotiate with their culture.
- Subjects
CULTURE; PSYCHOANALYSIS; INTERPERSONAL relations; SELF-consciousness (Awareness); NEGOTIATION; THOUGHT &; thinking
- Publication
China Media Research, 2011, Vol 7, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
1556-889X
- Publication type
Article