The Organization of Cultural Orientations

这个项目涉及加州大学圣地亚哥分校的一位文化人类学家的研究。这项研究的目标是开发识别和测量美国、墨西哥和日本文化取向的方法，这些文化取向被定义为对个人具有强烈心理意义的文化模式。将研究三种不同的文化取向评估方法：陈述评级、单个术语或短语的评级以及对S小样本受访者的密集访谈。居住在南加州的土生土长的美国人、墨西哥人和日本受访者将被抽样调查。如果成功，这个基本的方法论项目将为人类学家和其他社会科学家提供一个概念框架和一套经验方法，通过这些方法可以对人进行评估，以确定其文化的哪些方面已经内化为对世界的理解和反应的具有重要心理意义的方式。这项研究很重要，因为它将促进我们对基本问题的理解，即人们如何适应他们的现实，以及他们对他们所处理的信息的感受。

This project involves the research of a cultural anthropologist from the University of California-San Diego. The goal of the research is to develop methods for the identification and measurement of American, Mexican, and Japanese cultural orientations, defined as cultural models which have strong psychological significance for individuals. Three different methods for the assessment of cultural orientations will be studied: ratings of statements, ratings of single terms or phrases, and intensive interviewing of s small sample of respondents. Native born Americans, Mexicans and Japanese respondents living in southern California will be sampled. If successful, this basic, methodological project will provide anthropologists and other social scientists with a conceptual framework and set of empirical methods by which persons can be assessed to determine which aspects of their cultural have become internalized into psychologically significant ways of understanding and reacting to the world. This research is important because it will advance our understanding of fundamental issues of how people orient themselves to their reality, and how they feel about the information they deal with.