Mastering Money as Cultural Tool and Life-World of East Asian Children : From the perspective of "Cultural psychology of difference"

在本研究中，为了整合跨文化心理学和文化心理学的理论观点，也为了将仅在市场经济范围内分析的现代经济学的经济概念扩展到人类学的人类经济概念，我们将货币概念概念化，而不是作为简单的经济工具，而是作为文化工具，意义。这些含义有很大的差异，取决于个人背景，包括社会、年龄、情况等。基于这一理论观点，我们考察了金钱的文化意义结构、以金钱为媒介的儿童生活世界结构及其发展变化。本项目的每项研究均由日本、中国、韩国、越南等不同文化背景的研究人员进行对话。

In this research, intending to integrate the theoretical viewpoints of cross-cultural psychology and cultural psychology, and also intending to expand the notion of economy of modern economics, which is analyzed only within the market economy, to the notion of human economy of anthropology, we have conceptualized the notion of money not as the simple economical tool, but as the cultural tool, the meanings. Those meanings have huge variety depending on individual contexts including society, age, situation etc. Based on this theoretical viewpoint, we have investigated the structure of cultural meanings of money, the structure of children's life-world mediated by money, and the developmental change of them. Each research of this project have been executed dialogically by Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese researchers who have different cultural background.