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

本研究旨在整合跨文化心理学和文化心理学的理论观点，并将只在市场经济中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，将货币概念从简单的经济工具概念，概念化为文化工具概念，并将其意义和价值进行了分析。这些意义因社会、年龄、情境等个体语境的不同而有很大差异。基于这一理论观点，我们考察了金钱的文化意义结构、以金钱为中介的儿童生活世界结构及其发展变化。本课题的每一项研究都是由具有不同文化背景的日本、中国、韩国和越南的研究者以对话的方式进行的。

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.