Pursuit of Meaning

Advances in Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology

Jürgen Straub, Doris Weidemann, Carlos Kölbl, Barbara Zielke, Jürgen Straub, Doris Weidemann, Carlos Kölbl, Barbara Zielke

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9783899422344
• eBook ISBN:
  9783839402344
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Social Sciences

The fields of cross-cultural and cultural psychology both acknowledge the role of `culture' for the constitution of a meaningful practice. There are notable differences as well as remarkable commonalities between nomologically oriented cross-cultural psychology on the one hand and interpretive cultural psychology on the other. Contributions to this book discuss recent theoretical and methodological approaches from both fields in order to explore their joint potential for an advancement of the concept of culture, for the theoretical conceptualization and methodical completion of comparative cultural studies and the scientific understanding of cultural difference.

This volume includes contributions by Ernest E. Boesch, Kenneth J. Gergen, Rom Harré, Gustav Jahoda and Jaan Valsiner.

Table of contents

• Cover Pursuit of Meaning
• CONTENTS
• Psychology, Culture, and the Pursuit of Meaning: an Introduction
• Glimpses of the Past and Current Perspectives
• Methodology and Comparison
• Methods and Instruments
• Self and Development in Culture
• Authors