The Culture and Psychology Reader

A comprehensive guide to the myriad issues at the nexus of culture and psychology

Cultural differences affect everything from international relations to the trivial encounters of daily life. Tensions between the U.S. and Japan, strife between African-Americans and Koreans, the difficulty urban youth encounter in adapting to a white-collar professional culture--all can be traced, directly or indirectly, to cultural and psychological barriers.

The Culture and Psychology Reader gathers a wide range of contributors to present a comprehensive guide to the myriad issues at the nexus of culture and psychology. What role have culture, race, and ethnicity assumed--or, rather, been allocated--in American psychology? How do traditionally marginalized groups, such as African-Americans, poor women, lesbians and gays, and bicultural people, perceive themselves and what can this tell us about the interplay between culture and psychology?

Beginning with definitions and an overview, the book examines such issues as development, adaption, the acquisition of culture, the self in a cultural context, and diagnostic assessment and treatment acknowledging the risk of cultural bias. Contributors to this volume include: Clifford Geertz, Richard Shweder, John Ogbu, Laura Brown, Michelle Fine and Adrienne Asch, Cherrie Moraga, June Jordan, Arturo Madrid, Howard Gardner, and Arthur Kleinman.

Author: Nancy Rule Goldberger, Joanne B. Veroff
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 07/01/1995
Pages: 844
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.39lbs
Size: 8.99h x 5.85w x 1.97d
ISBN: 9780814730812

About the Author
Goldberger, Nancy Rule: - Nancy Rule Goldberger is a member of the Faculty in Psychology of The Fielding Institute, and a Visiting Scholar at New York University, as well as a coeditor of Women's Ways of Knowing. Jody Veroff is a member of the Faculty of the Human and Organizational Development Program of The Fielding Institute and the author, with Joseph Veroff, of Social Incentives.