Cultural Psychology A Perspective on Psychological Functioning And Social Reform 1st Edition by Carl Ratner ISBN 0805854789 978-0805854787

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ISBN 10: 0805854789 

ISBN 13: 978-0805854787

Author: Carl Ratner

Carl Ratner’s new book deepens our understanding of psychology by emphasizing the role that cultural factors, such as social institutions, artifacts, and cultural concepts play in psychological functioning. The author demonstrates the impact of culture on stimulating and structuring emotion, personality, perception, cognition, memory, sexuality, and mental illness. Examples from interdisciplinary social science research illuminate a sophisticated dialectical relationship between cultural factors and psychological phenomena.

Written in an engaging style, the book articulates a new theory, “macro cultural psychology”, and a qualitative methodology for investigating the cultural origins, characteristics, and functions of psychological phenomena. Ratner explains how this cultural perspective can be used to enhance psychological growth, illuminate directions for social reform, and how social reform can enhance psychological functioning, and vice versa.
Cultural Psychology critically examines several prominent psychological approaches including social constructionism, feminism, hermeneutics, psychobiology, evolutionary, cross-cultural, ecological, and mainstream psychology. The book articulates a theory of macro culture that emphasizes the political dimension of culture and psychology.

Intended for students, researchers, and practitioners in psychology, education, psychotherapy, history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, and policy makers and practitioners in public health and social service who are interested in understanding cultural aspects of psychology. The book is an appropriate text for courses in cross-cultural or community psychology, social work, social theory, and critical thinking.

Table of contents: 

Part I: Psychology, Culture, Politics, Science
Introduction to Macro Cultural Psychology
Macro Culture

Part II: Principles of Macro Cultural Psychology
The Dialectical Integration of Psychological Phenomena and Macro Cultural Factors

Part III: Applications of Macro Cultural Psychology to Research Methodology, Social Reform, and Personal Growth
Research Methodology for Macro Cultural Psychology
Macro Cultural Psychology, Social Reform, and Psychological Change
Macro Cultural Psychology and Personal Growth

Scientific and Political Deficiencies of Psychological Theories/Constructs That Minimize Macro Culture

Epilogue: A Philosophy of Science and a Social Philosophy for Macro Cultural Psychology

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