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Cultural Psychology: A Perspective on Psychological Functioning and Social Reform

Cultural Psychology: A Perspective on Psychological Functioning and Social Reform

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AnthropologyGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0805854789
ISBN13: 9780805854787
Publisher: Psychology Pr
Published: Nov 17 2005
Pages: 286
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Carl Ratner's new book deepens our understanding of psychology by emphasizing the role that cultural factors, such as social institutions, artifacts, and cultural concepts play in psychological functioning. The author demonstrates the impact of culture on stimulating and structuring emotion, personality, perception, cognition, memory, sexuality, and mental illness. Examples from interdisciplinary social science research illuminate a sophisticated dialectical relationship between cultural factors and psychological phenomena.

Written in an engaging style, the book articulates a new theory, macro cultural psychology, and a qualitative methodology for investigating the cultural origins, characteristics, and functions of psychological phenomena. Ratner explains how this cultural perspective can be used to enhance psychological growth, illuminate directions for social reform, and how social reform can enhance psychological functioning, and vice versa.

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