Cultural Processes (eBook, PDF)

A Social Psychological Perspective
Redaktion: Leung, Angela K. -Y.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

With the rapid growth of knowledge concerning ethnic and national group differences in human behaviors in the last two decades, researchers are increasingly curious as to why, how, and when such differences surface. The field is ready to leapfrog from a descriptive science of group differences to a science of cultural processes. The goal of this book is to lay the theoretical foundation for this exciting development by proposing an original process model of culture. This new perspective discusses and extends contemporary social psychological theories of social cognition and social motivation to explain why culture matters in human psychology. We view culture as a loose network of imperfectly shared knowledge representations for coordinating social transactions. As such, culture serves different adaptive functions important for individuals' goal pursuits. Furthermore, with the increasingly globalized and hyper-connected multicultural space, much can be revealed about how different cultural traditions come into contact.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511911682
• Artikelnr.: 38194370

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Cultural processes: an overview Chi
yue Chiu, Angela K.
y. Leung and Ying
yi Hong; Part II. Representational Theories of Culture: 2. Culture as lay personal beliefs Karl Dach
Gruschow, Evelyn W. M. Au and Hsin
Ya Liao; 3. Culture as intersubjective representations of values Ching Wan and Chi
yue Chiu; 4. Culture as norm representations: the case of collective responsibility attribution Melody Manchi Chao and Chi
yue Chiu; Part III. Psychological Functions of Culture: 5. Epistemic functions of culture Melody Manchi Chao and Chi
yue Chiu; 6. Existential functions of culture: the monumental immortality project Pelin Kesebir; 7. Self
definitional functions of culture Ching Wan, Karl Dach
Gruschow, Sun No and Ying
yi Hong; Part IV. Manifestations of Cultural Processes: 8. Culture and self
enhancement Young
Hoon Kim; 9. Cultural processes underlying subjective well
being Young
Hoon Kim and William Tov; 10. Cultural processes in teams: the development of team mental models in heterogeneous work teams Jing Qiu, Zhi
Xue Zhang and Leigh Anne Liu; 11. Harmony, illusory relationship costs, and conflict resolution in Chinese contexts Zhi
Xue Zhang, Yan Zhang and Min Wang; Part V. Transcultural Processes: 12. Bicultural identity negotiation Sun No, Ching Wan, Melody Manchi Chao, Jennifer L. Rosner and Ying
yi Hong; 13. Multicultural experiences and intercultural communication Angela K.
y. Leung and Chi
yue Chiu; 14. Multicultural experience fosters creative conceptual expansion Angela K.
y. Leung, Jing Chen and Chi
yue Chiu; 15. Workforce diversity and creativity: a multilevel analysis Jian Han, Siqing Peng, Chi
yue Chiu and Angela K.
y. Leung.