Many Forms of Culture
Many Forms of Culture
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DOI：
10.1037/a0015308
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发表时间：
2009-04-01
影响因子：
16.4
通讯作者：
Cohen, Adam B.
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作者：
Cohen, Adam B.
对文化感兴趣的心理学家主要关注东西方在个人主义-集体主义或独立-相互依存的自我认知方面的差异。与这一维度同样重要的是，还有许多其他形式的文化，它们具有许多文化可变性的维度。作者从心理学中未充分研究的文化中选择了三种文化：宗教，社会经济地位和一个国家内的地区。这些文化在许多心理学上有趣的方面有所不同。通过研究更多类型的文化，心理学家将丰富他们如何定义文化，他们如何思考普遍性和文化特异性，他们对多元文化主义的看法，他们如何研究文化，以及他们研究文化的哪些方面。扩大文化的研究将对临床问题、组间关系和应用领域产生深远的影响。
Psychologists interested in culture have focused primarily on East-West differences in individualism-collectivism, or independent-interdependent self-construal. As important as this dimension is, there are many other forms of culture with many dimensions of cultural variability. Selecting from among the many understudied cultures in psychology, the author considers three kinds of cultures: religion, socioeconomic status, and region within a country. These cultures vary in a number of psychologically interesting ways. By studying more types of culture, psychologists stand to enrich how they define culture, how they think about universality and cultural specificity, their views of multiculturalism, how they do research on culture, and what dimensions of culture they study. Broadening the study of culture will have far-reaching implications for clinical issues, intergroup relations, and applied domains.