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Culture & Psychology
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.529

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Number of Followers: 14

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ISSN (Print) 1354-067X - ISSN (Online) 1461-7056
Published by Sage Publications

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Imagining Life Beyond a Crisis: A Four Quadrant Model to Conceptualize
Possible Futures
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  Authors: Séamus A Power, Merlin Schaeffer, Liisalotte Ordóñez-Bueso, Rebecca Udsen, Thomas Morton, Jan P Heisig
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  In this article we report evidence from a series of semi-structured interviews with a broad sample of people living in Denmark (n = 21), about their perspectives on the future during the first months of the global Covid-19 pandemic. The thematic and discursive analyses, based on an abductive ontology, illustrate imaginings of the future along two vectors: individual to collective and descriptive to moral. On a descriptive and individual level, people imagined getting through the pandemic on a myopic day-by-day basis; on a descriptive and collective level, people imagined changes to work and socializing. Their future was bound and curtailed by their immediate present. On a moral and individual level, respondents were less detailed in their reports, but some vowed to change their behaviors. On a moral and collective level, respondents reported what the world should be like and discussed changes to environmental behaviors such as traveling, commuting, and work. The model suggests the domain of individual moral imaginings is the most difficult domain for people to imagine beyond the practicalities of their everyday lives. The implications of this model for comprehending imaginations of the future are discussed.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-05-29T10:18:06Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231177459
Identity and parent-child relationship representations of Nezha: From
cultural narrative to case conceptualization
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  Authors: Ruitong Guo, Xianghui Li
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  ObjectiveBased on the assumption that the cultural image at the level of experience is the collective and individual psychological reality expressed by cultural narrative and individual narrative, to study the timeless Tales of Nezha (“Natch”) in China as an experiential cultural image of child development and parent-child relationship.MethodWe adopted the narrative analysis method which focused on qualitative content analysis, covering religion, folklore, literature, entertainment, education and other fields.ResultOur exposition articulates a cultural narrative framework of diachronic and contemporary cultural image of “Nezha”, the iconic child deity. This framework refers to our academic research discipline of describing the image characteristics, plots and interpersonal relationship, and conceptualizing the theme as psychological meaning units of personal identity and parent-child relationship. By analogizing and comparing this framework with the “Nezha” of personal narratives in consultation, we found the interactive clues of the case’s identity and parent-child relationship. We then combined these with specific elements unique and particular to each individual case in order to achieve a meaningful case conceptualization. This process enabled us to apply psychotherapeutic intervention at opportune moments during a counselling session.ConclusionsThe cultural image emerging from the counseling is not only a personal narrative of resource and a tool for the client to externalize the problem and identity representation, but also a cultural narrative reference point for the counselor to understand the case and to engage in further in-depth work. The personal narrative qualitative data can be obtained by referring to four dimensions: external—internal, event—image, narrative—interpretation, and experience—reflection. With the narrative identity of client, the “Nezha” of personal narrative led to the theme that parent-child relationship impedes the development of personal identity. The counselor was thereby enabled to construct a new meaning and new identity with the client by providing appropriate information and knowledge of the cultural narrative.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-05-23T10:09:24Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231177458
Indigenous people in urban context and historical memory: Paths for
psychology indigenous people in urban context and psychology
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  Authors: Mariana Feldmann, Raquel Sousa Lobo Guzzo
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  This article summarizes the results of a doctoral thesis based on the psychosocial perspective and was justified by the indigenous presence in the city and the lack of public policies that respond to the real demands of the population. It aimed to investigate who the indigenous people are in an urban context and how historical memory is present in the construction of their identity, identifying them as a tool of resistance to colonization. Based on the Participation-Action-Research, the sources of information were field diaries and interviews with three indigenous representatives from two organized groups. From the Constructive-Interpretive Analysis, it can be concluded that the historical memory is configured as a tool in which it expands the identity dimension, making it possible to recognize oneself as an indigenous person from the historical records of memory, favoring the strengthening and resistance in the face of violence experienced in everyday life. In addition, the importance of collective spaces for strengthening the subject was evident.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-04-25T11:39:00Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231172911
Using Emotional Text Mining to Explore the Cultural Representation of
Organ Donation in Spanish and Italian Culture
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  Authors: Silvia Monaco, Anna Cortellino, Maria Giovanna Massari, Michela Di Trani, Francesca Greco
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Spain is considered the world leader in the field of Organ Donation (OD). Italy has adopted the Spanish model in its health system but failed to reach the Spanish primacy. This work investigates the cultural elements influencing the choice to donate in Italy and Spain. We collected from two newspapers of Italy and Spain, all the published articles (2001–2021), containing the respective translation of OD. The two final corpora were analyzed through the Emotional Text Mining methodology. The analysis produced 4 CR for the Italian corpus and 5 CR for the Spanish one. The principal CR for Spain is viewing the OD as a national project, while in Italy, the donation is viewed as a life-saving product. In Italy, the theme of death is viewed as unacceptable. In Spain, the principal context in which donation is discussed is the family. Another difference is related to the developmental process: Italy is rooted in established promotional models, while in Spain, the desire for innovation emerges. Finally, OD is connected to other fields in Spain. In conclusion, this study allowed us to understand deep cultural differences between Spain and Italy in OD. Results ought to be used to improve promotional campaigns to citizens.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-04-25T11:36:00Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231172909
Hypnogenesis, Chronic Pain and Peircean Habit: Implications for Clinical
Endeavors
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  Authors: Hugo Nogueira Gonçalves
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  This study’s objective is to discuss hypnogenesis parting from one of Erickson’s chronic pain cases, analyzing hypnogenesis involvement in iatrogenesis and in the therapeutic interventions. Hypnogenesis is a concept for how clinical relationships tend to reproduce the ideas and theories of the therapist in the subject’s subjectivity. In hypnotherapy, hypnogenesis is implicated in the relational nature of the hypnotic experience, addressing the difficulty in separation between fabricated and revealed realities. A case of trigeminal neuralgia is analyzed and discussed to illustrate the implications of hypnogenesis in iatrogenesis and its therapeutic potential for chronic patients. The study draws a theoretical possibility on how hypnogenesis highlights iatrogenesis by the neglect of the subject’s needs in clinical consultations. Then, the study demonstrates how Erickson uses hypnogenesis in the patient’s therapy, favoring her well-being. To approach hypnogenic communicational processes, Charles Peirce’s concept of habit and is utilized as a complex system of subjective processes.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-04-21T10:44:07Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231172906
Hwang’s Philosophy for Developing an Indigenous Cultural Psychology
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  Authors: Matthew R McWhorter
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Kwang-Kuo Hwang provides numerous recommendations for how to develop an indigenous cultural psychology. These recommendations may be understood to suggest proceeding according to three stages: (1) beginning with philosophical reflection on the meaning of modernization and exploring the topics of reality and structure (where such reflections ground one’s subsequent development of meta-models concerning self and social interaction), (2) adopting such meta-models as a hermeneutic for interpreting texts associated with one’s cultural tradition, and (3) conducting experimental studies on the basis of hypotheses derived from such cultural interpretations. Hwang’s philosophy is valuable in that it exemplifies a postmodern approach to cultural psychology that integrates traditional pre-modern forms of wisdom with modern methods of scientific investigation.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-04-04T02:39:07Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231169284
Understanding Chinese international students’ perception of cultural
conflicts in Canada: Through the case of cannabis use
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  Authors: Kedi Zhao, Trish Lenz, Lin Fang
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  The legalization of recreational cannabis consumption in Canada created a cultural conflict for international students from China, where the use of cannabis is heavily criminalized and deemed immoral. This conceptual paper theorizes this cultural conflict experienced by Chinese international students in Canada by applying three theories from macro to micro levels. Neoliberalism is first used to understand how this cultural conflict exposes collisions between the neoliberal West and the rising economic power of China as illustrated through Chinese students studying in Canada. Next, acculturation theory focuses on these students’ cultural transition and provides further insight into potential strategies for their handling of specific cultural conflicts such as cannabis use. Lastly, Cloninger’s theory of substance use is adopted to explore Chinese international students’ individual reasoning about cannabis use, particularly how they make decisions based on evaluations of various conditions. Building upon the above analyses, an integrated conceptual model is further formed to help us understand Chinese students’ potential perception of cannabis use in Canada. This conceptual framework provides an important theoretical and conceptual base for future research and practice, from which to further explore cannabis use in the context of cultural transition of different immigrant and migrant groups.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-04-03T08:29:46Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231169287
Seeking reason and rebirth: Jungian archetypes, scientism, and a question
about transhumanism
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  Authors: Raya A. Jones
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Attempts to make Carl Gustav Jung’s theory of archetypes scientifically credible tend to invoke biology and evolution theory. These convey faith in the power of science (scientism), taken here as a cultural metanarrative. The essay provides a critical appraisal of both biology-oriented and culture-oriented trends in Jungian studies, and steers the conceptualization of archetypes towards issues of embodied subjectivity and narrativity. Thematic parallels between transhumanism, on the one side, and the rebirth archetype as described by Jung, on the other, serve as a case in point.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-03-22T07:12:23Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231163250
Coping strategies and social representations of bullies among bullying
victims from individualistic and collectivist societies
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  Authors: Christin Grothaus
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  The effects bullying has on victims’ mental, emotional, and physical well-being depend on the coping strategies applied. As coping can be influenced by the environment in which it occurs, scholars have started to explore differences in coping across cultural contexts. However, qualitative research on the role of culture in coping with bullying victimization and social representations of bullies remains scarce. This study compares the coping strategies of US and Thai students with help of 28 in-depth interviews and 60 autobiographical written reflections. Findings revealed several differences in coping across groups. Thai students often tried to stay connected with the bully and felt guilty expressing anger. They assigned less responsibility and intention to the bully. This was only the case among US students if the bully was young. While Thai students laughed along to fit in, US students laughed off bullies to demonstrate that they did not care. Thai students regularly blamed themselves and tried to adapt their appearance and behavior. Whereas US students stressed how bullying helped them to become more resilient, Thai students highlighted increased tolerance. The possible role of culture in coping with bullying victimization, particularly of collectivist and individualistic cultural value orientations, as well as the role of social representations of bullies, is being discussed.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-03-21T08:23:31Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231164796
The Role of Dehumanization in Legitimation and Delegitimation of State
Violence in Colombia
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  Authors: Serhat Tutkal
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  This article examines tweets about state violence targeting student protesters at the University of Cauca in December 2018. Its objective is accounting for the role of dehumanization of actors in legitimizing and delegitimizing state violence. It analyzes 8421 tweets to unravel specific mechanisms of dehumanization based on following sub-categories: (a) animalization, (b) classism, (c) racism, (d) religious discrimination, (e) sanitation, (f) sexism, (g) wishing for or celebrating injuries, and h) other. It shows how dehumanization a) attributes lack of rationality, morality, or agency to social actors; (b) trivializes their lives; and (c) defines them as sources of contamination. After arguing that dehumanizing discourse makes it extremely difficult to establish dialogue and promote nonviolence, it suggests future research on possible ways of re-humanization of dehumanized actors.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-03-15T08:45:49Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231164795
Repairing the breach: identity narratives of a Latin American woman in
Andalusia
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  Authors: Manuel L de la Mata-Benítez, Alicia Español, José Antonio Matías-García, María Lojo, Cristina del Villar-Toribio
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Migration can be understood as a breach in life experience, creating a transition, and identity narratives as a strategy to repair this breach. Our study focuses on how two classical dilemmas that characterize this process are navigated in the narrative of migration of the participant (An Ecuadorian migrant woman in Andalusia): self versus others, and continuity of the self over time, despite changes. A semi-structured interview was conducted to achieve the objectives of the study. The interview was transcribed and analyzed on three axes: 1) Migration settings, identifying the dominant spaces of interaction where the migration narrative takes place; 2) Migration I-positions and voices, identifying the I-positions and voices involved in the narrative; and 3) Continuities and discontinuities in the identity narrative. The results demonstrated that the main settings and positions in the narrative were related to nationality, gender, and religion in relation to the dilemmas of self versus others and continuity versus change. These positions help the participant negotiate self-continuity in front of the changes associated with migration and the resistance against xenophobic discourses and positions in the host country. Results support the analysis of the transition processes associated to migration based on the concept of proculturation.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-03-09T07:36:45Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231160237
Defining the Self in Terms of Power, Plurality and Social
Embeddedness–The Model of the Agonistic Self
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  Authors: Vladimir Džinović, Sanja Grbić, Dragan Vesić
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  The paper offers an analytical framework for conceptualization and research of the structure and dynamics of the agonistic self, relying on Hermans’ dialogical self theory and Foucault’s analytics of power. In a multiple-case study, 9 teachers participated in a two-phase Agonistic Self Interview. A deductive-inductive thematic analysis of the data yielded an analytical framework comprising 4 categories: Functions of Voices, Power Relations (with two sub-categories: Forms of Exercising Power and Practices for Exercising Power and Resistance), Types of Relations Between Voices, and Institutional Context. The paper offers the analytical concept of a strategic situation along with novel methodological tools for the research and analysis of the self as embedded in interpersonal relationships and sociocultural and institutional context. The psychological relevance of the findings is discussed in terms of relations between dominance and maintaining plurality within the self and relations between the stability and social contextualization of the self.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-02-28T01:24:47Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231156595
The Veil: A Silhouette of Autonomy and Empowerment
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  Authors: Syed Zamanat Abbas
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  This study inspects controversies in the Western World about the veil worn by Muslim women in public. It merges two separate domains, Islamic Feminism and Western Feminism. These two domains need to be addressed to generate new opinions. Western Feminism believes that veil is a sign of oppression and masculinity. However, Islamic Feminists find the veil empowering and a sign of dignity. This study aims to unravel the underlying contradictions and blind spots that characterize the arguments in favor and against the veil. This juxtaposition can provide insight into new theoretical and empirical points of departure. All oppressions result from the political dynamics of the state in which the individual is living. It is utterly reductionist to criticize the choice to veil, which is an instrument of autonomy. This paper emphasizes that Islam does not oblige women to be victimized and dissatisfied. However, Islam strives to promote the autonomy of Muslim women. It is safe to say that Islam describes women as beauty with a brain.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-02-16T06:44:44Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221115852
Exploring experiences of proculturation in international students during
the COVID-19 pandemic
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  Authors: Daniel Correia, Maxine Watkins
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  This study intends to find what are the experiences of international students semiotically adapting to unfamiliar signs in the United Kingdom before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six international university students to learn about their experiences of adapting to a new country. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Two themes were classified as dialogical self in interpersonal adaptation and linguistic elements of semiotic adaptation, each with two subthemes. Participants’ experiences of merging self-constructs seem reflective of proculturation theory. The researchers termed ‘language bridges’ to refer to social representations dependent on language-specific signs. Some of the participants’ self-constructs relied on signs not provided by the environment during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, proculturation offers insight into the complex psychological and social processes of adapting to unfamiliar signs.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-02-13T08:18:16Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231156591
A systematic review of client’s perspectives on the cultural and racial
awareness and responsiveness of mental health practitioners
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  Authors: A Sadusky, H Yared, P Patrick, E Berger
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Culturally and racially responsive practice continues to be a common challenge among Mental Health Practitioners (MHPs). To the authors’ knowledge, this systematic review was the first to collate and synthesize clients’ perspectives of MHPs’ cultural and racial awareness and responsiveness from around the world. Original studies that were published between 2010 and 2021 reporting on qualitative data about clients’ perspectives regarding MHPs’ cultural-racial awareness and responsiveness were included in the review. The studies’ key findings that addressed this review’s question were synthesized and analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. This review found 48 papers that met inclusion criteria, which represented the views of 652 clients across 10 countries. Three major themes and eight subthemes were established that concerned characteristics of the MHP, the client, and the therapeutic alliance. The results of this review indicate individual and systemic factors that influence mental health access for people from culturally and racially marginalized groups. Ongoing training of MHPs, increased racial and cultural representation among MHPs, inclusive physical settings, and reduced discrimination by MHPs are among the key findings and directions based on the results of this review.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-02-09T10:28:48Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231156600
Cultural understandings of fathering and fatherhood in India: An
exploration of lived experiences
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  Authors: Yukta Goel, Shefali Mishra
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Conceptualization of fathers as an essential begetter survives within and through their relationship in family through ages. However, within and behind this word, a social-construct, the journey of fathers remains non-located in researches on parenting in India. Thus, this study aims to develop an indigenous conceptualization of fatherhood in the cultural realm of India from father’s and child’s perspective. Carried out in eight two-child families in Delhi, the study is done through semi-structured interviews with fathers and Draw and tell method with their elder child (7–11 years). Thematic analysis of both father’s and children’s narratives helped create seven themes within each. The themes from father’s narratives include multiple shades of “father”, ‘being a father’: a world within, learnings about ‘being a father’, father as enablers of child’s ‘becoming’, picturing ‘ideal’ fathers, cultural mountings and ‘cultures’ of fatherhood. The themes obtained from children’s narratives include father as a playtime partner, inspiring figure, mainstay, shield, involved, not-so-involved. Viewed holistically, this study holds implications for parenting practices and policy makers in positive direction.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-02-02T07:01:30Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231154006
Exploring the depth of marion dönhoff’s psyche: A Cultural
Psychogram
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  Authors: Enno von Fircks
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  The present article is a psychogram about Marion Gräfin Dönhoff. I am deciphering the life of the countess on the basis of Boesch’s symbolic action theory. By the psychogram I am exploring the action field (needs and goals) of Dönhoff that I argue can only be understood while drawing on her relation to her socio-cultural environment. Born in a noble family in Königsberg – in a castle – she is a child of a highly politicized family with a moral ethos. Very early on she comes in contact with the general history or the history of her family both intertwined one with the other, goes to Frankfurt for her studies in the 1930ies, completes her dissertation in Basel (1936), leads castle Friedrichstein economically in the 1940ies, joins the inner-German resistance, flees from castle Friedrichstein in 1944 and becomes a journalist in the post-war decade in Germany. I argue that Dönhoff was exposed to specific cultural life-patterns catalyzing the ground-theme of her life, the political, practical and social involvement with the people’s lives which helps them to preserve meaning. By the notion of interrelated action fields – directed towards a common ground-theme – I am also proposing an extension of Boeschian Cultural Psychology.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-02-01T04:01:23Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231154004
Gestalt therapy, mundane phenomenology, and yoga philosophy: An integrated
praxis in psychology
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  Authors: Bruna Improta de Oliveira Mendonça, Denise Maria Barreto Coutinho, Nandita Chaudhary
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  This inquiry proposes a theoretical-conceptual dialogue between Yoga and the philosophical bases of Gestalt therapy and mundane phenomenology. By expanding the gestaltic framework, we can better comprehend points of convergence and divergence between its theory and practice, vis-à-vis mundane phenomenology and Yoga philosophy. We posit that Yoga can offer to Gestalt therapy and phenomenology a broader perspective on contemplative somatic praxis. Conversely, phenomenology and the gestaltic approach can provide solid ground for an articulation with Yoga philosophy.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-01-24T02:38:17Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231154007
Shock and the materialist conception of art: Considerations for a
politicised cultural psychology
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  Authors: Nick Malherbe
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  The materialist conception of art understands art in relation to the material conditions within and by which art is produced and consumed. For cultural psychology, the materialist conception of art has been useful for developing insights into how individual perceptions are shaped, and are shaped by, culture as a collectively produced and historically embedded site of meaning-making. However, in much of cultural psychology, the relationship between progressive politics and the materialist conception of art remains under-appreciated. In this article, I consider how cultural psychologists might strengthen this relation through artistic shock, that is, a subjective, perceptual, and/or historiographical rupture brought about through the experience of art. In particular, I outline how Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin theorised and practiced artistic shock, and examine what the work of these thinkers could mean for cultural psychologists working with political collectives to grapple with psychopolitical questions related to subjectivity, contradiction, and memory. I conclude by reflecting on how future work that seeks to politicise cultural psychology might engage with the materialist conception of art.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2023-01-21T06:37:14Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X231153999
Community versus society: The normative vision of sociality in joint
self-education
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  Authors: Eugene Matusov
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  In this theoretical essay, I argue that the normative sociality – i.e., a normative way of being together – for joint self-education is society based on pluralism and tolerance of culturally and educationally diverse communities and individual educatees, their synergy, voluntary participation, and acceptance of the final sovereignty of their educational decision-making. I rejected a widespread proposal that community (e.g., “community of learners”) should be the vision of this norm for such educational sociality. At the same time, I accept that an empirical community can be a very important part of a normative notion of society as applied to joint self-education. Balancing between communal, often centripetal, and societal, often centrifugal, processes is often necessary for maintaining a successful joint self-education endeavor.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-30T08:06:23Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221147681
Re-defining Plurality of Autonomous, Unmerged Voices and Consciousnesses
in Bakhtin’s Theory of the Novel
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  Authors: Saikat Majumdar, Sandip Sarkar
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Historical investigation of novel changes over the ages. It demands observations from different dimensions, confronting one another and sometimes presenting opposite views provided by additional studies. Considering literary analysis about the emergence, structure, component, or features of novels somewhat has diffused the discussion. This paper reviewed the comprehensive theory of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin regarding the novel, the most celebrated discourse of books. The world merges into an open-ended, multi-voiced, dialogic reality as a novel gives way to distributing entirely incompatible parts among different perspectives of equal importance. Bakhtin opposes monologic speech and acknowledges dialogic speech, which determines social relations where the speaker is embedded. The dialogic discourse offers a radical liberalization of both the self and the concept of culture. The present paper traced the implied dialogism or the social relations within the framework of culture and subculture. Thus language which functions in a novel is not “symptomatic” of “persons,” but persons are the bearer of the language, with the “specific set of social and ideological valuations” that entails in a novel.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-24T08:42:25Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221145902
Reification of infant-directed speech' Exploring assumptions shaping
infant-directed speech research
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  Authors: Netanel Weinstein, Dare Baldwin
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  The seemingly ubiquitous tendency of caregivers to speak to infants in special ways has captivated the interest of scholars across diverse disciplines for over a century. As a result, this phenomenon has been characterized in quite different ways. Here, we highlight the shift from early definitions of “baby-talk” which implied that the nature of speech directed towards infants would vary in different sociolinguistic contexts, to later terms such as “motherese” or “infant-directed speech” (IDS) which came to refer to a specific set of features, some of which were argued to represent a universal, optimal and culturally invariant form of speech. These divergent conceptualizations of IDS thus reflect broader disciplinary tensions pertaining to the role allotted to cultural processes in psychological research. We hope to contribute to this literature by pointing to the complexity associated with identifying discrete categories of speech (i.e., baby-talk and motherese/IDS) within a complex multi-dimensional sociolinguistic landscape. We also highlight ways in which a lack of attention to the cultural context of infant-caregiver interactions may have led to biased characterizations of IDS. Furthermore, these biases may implicitly penetrate the nature of empirical work on IDS as well. We end with a series of suggestions for future directions.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-24T03:20:57Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221147683
Dialogical self on the slope: An analysis of family dynamics on skis
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  Authors: Lisa-Marie Geberth
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Cultural organization of action leads to dialogical resolutions to situated activity contexts. Teaching children to descend Alpine skiing slopes is the context selected to analyze such dialogicality. Dialogical Self Theory is a fitting framework for investigation of the meaningful actions in the teaching-learning settings. The skiing context brings a unique scenery and extreme conditions, where I-positions can be observed in a setting, where humans are in motion. The outdoor and activity context is a novelty for DST. Dynamic aspects of I-Positions and their interchange will become evident. As a result, there should be a focus on moving humans in future research. A family consisting of the parents, two daughters and paternal grandparents is accompanied over the course of two years while teaching the children how to ski. The parents and grandparents share many key aspects of their I-positions, which leads to a harmonic family dynamic. Ambivalences were found in the mother’s I-positions which mainly focus about the topic of being a good parent.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-23T07:22:22Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221147679
The psychological aspects within the Yogyakartan Bedhaya: An exploratory
study on royal court dancers
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  Authors: Matheus Raoul Supriyadi, Satwika Rahapsari
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  As a classical art form reserved only for the Yogyakartan royalty from the 18th to the 20th century, the Bedhaya does not simply serve as entertainment for its audiences. It is the epitome of Javanese meditation. This study aims to explore the experiences of court dancers regarding the Bedhaya to ultimately identify what psychological aspects are involved in the formation of their experiences. We used Moustakas’ qualitative phenomenology as the basis of this whole research, in combination with movement elicitation procedures to condition the participants prior to the data collection process. Consequently, we interviewed four Bedhaya dancers from various generations who were trained within the royal court of Yogyakarta. We analyzed the results using Moustakas’ modification of the Stevick–Colaizzi–Keen method. The results yielded five themes, which are the essence of the experiences of Bedhaya dancers and were then elaborated further using psychological concepts that may serve as a starting point for further psychological research on the subject.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-22T01:16:31Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221147684
The Beauty of Unfulfillment
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  Authors: Alberto Castelli
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  The dialectic between transitory pleasure and permanent values, between the nature of life and the ideal, finds one of its representations in the experience of unfulfilled loves. Cyrano de Bergerac and Baudelaire’s poem A une passante have already received extensive scholarly attention but never as a theory of desire. Can a love still be real if it cannot be undertaken and experienced' The texts in analysis re-think the role of the object of love, and therefore the metaphysics of love, through the dynamic of lack and desire. Desire needs to replicate itself in order to exist, thus the object of love must remain unattainable.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-21T09:29:29Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221147676
The Chinese ring of time
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  Authors: Alberto Castelli
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  While Western thinking is a linear belief system set in motion by Christianity, Chinese reasoning conceives changes within a circular process that holds together repetition and transformation. Making sense of this is simply to recognize that depending on how we consider the nature of history, we will also partake in a different imprint on society as a whole. The transition from socialist to post-socialist China is also the drift from the stability guaranteed by Chinese philosophy to the individualism offered by the logic of marketization. Over the sociological implosion of Chinese cyclicity, China places its quest for a new identity.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-21T09:03:56Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221147678
The myth of progress
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  Authors: Alberto Castelli
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  This manuscript stages the West and China as civilizations rooted in contrasting myths. The Western leading paradigm is the Faustian Man whose ambition created modernity and the tragedy of progress. It is a tragedy already condemned by history but, being Faust’s construction site unfinished, it is a tragedy that everyone seems keen to re-enact. On the other hand, China conceived the concept of stability, rather than competition, the key for a durable success. Behind Zheng He’s voyages and the Ming Dynasty’s choice to go westbound, rather than eastbound, lies an anti-Faustian attitude, the essence of Chinese philosophy, to be read not as anti-modernity but the attempt to shape an alternative modernity.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-20T09:44:08Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221145895
Making worldviews work: A heuristic, a planet scan, a case and their
transversal implication
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  Authors: Xabier Renteria-Uriarte
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  A worldview is, very basically, formed by tenets on the nature of the world and on the way of knowing it held by persons, social groups, intellectual currents or ethnic cultures. It is a term widely used in social sciences, but often left aside in daily research work because of being considered a vague term. Lax definitions are the reason, but such symbolic worlds will not disappear even if we do not refer to them, and we need operational and heuristic conceptualizations, both to analyze such symbolic parameters as a study objective and to refer to them as the appropriate understanding contexts of other topics. Here, definitions with a multidimensional structure that imply heuristic potential are specified as a solution; previous proposals are reviewed; the needs for improvement are set out; and a consequent conceptualization is proposed. Then onto-epistemic tenets of the main cultures on Earth and of history are briefly described as such worldviews, a case in Basque culture tested to assess the heuristic potential, and an outstanding ‘transversal’ implication is advanced: worldviews should not only be considered multidimensional concepts with heuristic potential, but also formed with areas around prototypes by cognitive-linguistic operators across the tenets.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-20T04:16:32Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221147682
School refusal as a representation of questioning normality: Understanding
the richness of socio-cultural transitions
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  Authors: Mami Kanzaki, Hanako Suzuki
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  The effects of school refusal on one’s life depend on how the adolescent lives their life after refusing school. Previous studies have focused on meaning making for past refusal and have not adequately addressed the changes and transitions after school refusal. The current study elaborates on the richness of the transitions of adolescents who refused to go to school, based on the socio-cultural psychology of life course. By looking at school refusal from the perspective of the life course theory, we found that school refusal was a process of questioning normality. In addition, by using Yamada’s relational model of people and environments (Yamada, 1987, 2010), we found there are three patterns in the adolescents’ transitions: a) expanding their involvement in the here and now by encountering resources and then expanding reality, b) reforming relationships in the here and now by representing an other’s world and then reconstructing reality, and c) blocking their involvement in the here and now by touching resources and then escaping from reality. We discuss formation of resistance and richness of transition which would bring richness to our lives.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-19T05:12:03Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221146487
Cultural mediation of grief: the role of esthetic experience
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  Authors: Luca Tateo
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  In Global North’s psychology, some existential experiences such as the loss of beloved persons are understood as purely individual problems. In a society of functioning individuals, the person is responsible for her own condition and for consuming the healthcare services provided to overcome the “problem” as soon as possible to go back to the fully functional role in the society. This vision raises several questions about turning “experiences” into “pathologies.” Historically, mankind made sense of death, loss, and grief as both a personal and collective experiences, mediated by heterogeneous cultural forms. I elaborate theoretically the concept of cultural mediation of grief, focusing on the esthetic and temporal dimensions of such mediation, as it is visible in art, rituals and everyday discourses. The idea is that such mediation is always present, and that psychology must be able to recognize it also in apparently secularized societies.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-13T01:41:38Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221145901
Insurrections of indigenous knowledges: Debating ‘critical’ in
indigenous psychologies
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  Authors: Parul Bansal
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Indigenous Psychologies is an approach/movement premised on cultural constitution of psychological functioning. Its most significant concept is ‘culture’ as it aims to be rooted in the culturally relevant and derived categories and theories of the participants whom it intends to study. However, the concept of ‘culture’ in Indigenous Psychologies is replete with several problematic assumptions that limit its potential to recover local knowledges and move beyond Western taxonomies. The paper takes a critical psychological lens to focus on these assumptions and critique them. It also attempts to draw the contours of Critical Indigenous Psychologies as a dispersed, disjointed field by addressing points of productive tension and predicaments that animate it. It suggests that indigenizing the ‘critical’ discourse and developing a ‘critique’ of indigenous discourse is the unending dialogue that Critical Indigenous Psychologies have to engage with.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-12T11:34:49Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221145897
Mothers’ ethnotheories of sibling relationships:A qualitative study
in Turkey
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  Authors: Zeynep Kapısız, Anna Sieben
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  In this article, Turkish mothers’ perspectives on sibling relationships are described and analyzed on the basis of 15 qualitative interviews. It is surprising that sibling relationships have received little attention in cultural psychological or sociological research for decades, while other social relationships—such as parent–child relationships, (marital) partner relationships, peer relationships, or hierarchical relationships (e.g., superior–subordinate)—were often studied. The two main goals of the present study are first, to examine Turkish mothers’ ethnotheories of sibling relationships between their own offspring and second, to analyze these parental ethnotheories through the lenses of the cultural psychological and sociological concepts of collectivism/individualism and interdependent/independent self-concepts. The interview data for this empirical study was derived from a larger project which focuses on parental ethnotheories more broadly. Problem-centered interview method was used. Eleven of the interviews took place via a digital platform due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while four of the interviews were conducted face-to-face just before pandemic’s onset. The Turkish mothers interviewed were from Istanbul and Sinop, a small Turkish city on the coast of the Black Sea. The data was interpreted using the documentary method and relational hermeneutical analysis. The article examines and discusses three topics of sibling relationships, namely hierarchical/equal sibling roles based on birth order, solidarity/sharing, and conflict. We show that all of the mothers interviewed place a high value on connectedness between siblings. With regard to the hierarchical or egalitarian distribution of roles, some of the interviewees differ.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-09T08:37:26Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221132002
Career decision-making as dynamic semiosis: Autoethnographic trajectory
equifinality modeling
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  Authors: Teppei Tschuchimoto, Tatsuya Sato
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  This study aims to describe and analyze the career decision-making of the first author in the context of life trajectory using autoethnographic trajectory equifinality modeling (Auto-TEM). The life story and analysis of the first author indicate that career decision-making is a constant pre-constructive process in the life trajectory of an individual. This process is a semiotic and trans-action one between the individual and society. In other words, career decision-making is an issue of the cultural psychology of dynamic semiosis, which is concerned with understanding the manner in which the life trajectory of a person promotes or inhibits socio-culturalism and not only a subject of matching and self-esteem. Alternatively, we emphasize that career decision-making for an individual is an act of meaning with a unique ontological aspect. We propose the value of Auto-TEM as a qualitative method for describing such a dynamic career decision-making process. The autoethnographic viewpoint renders possible the understandings of the dynamics of the personal–collective culture synthesis for the subject.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-07T01:30:34Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221140609
Conceptual questions about meaning: Divergence or complementarity between
cultural-Historical positions'
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  Authors: Ramiro Rodrigues Coni Santana, Marilena Ristum
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Meaning was a core concept in the development of Lev Vygotsky’s cultural-historical approach. Considering the incompleteness of his work, other authors have adopted different directions in the seminal discussion on meaning as a unit of thought and language. Based on Rychlak’s ideas, this paper proposes dialogues between three culturally based authors—González Rey, Jaan Valsiner, and Jerome Bruner—reviewing relations of complementarity and synthesis to understand the concept of meaning. We call attention to the uniqueness of each theoretical approach, avoiding the simplification of their assumptions or the intention of reducing them as if they only dealt with the same concept with different words. The comparison between authors brings about a notion of cultural, historical, narrative meaning grounded on the singular-collective dialectic, endowed with an affective dimension, and the access to which implies the adoption of a qualitative and idiographic methodology. Based on common grounds, we coordinated different understandings, and attempted to devise a concept comprising inter-focus features, while meeting the criteria for a satisfactory theoretical formulation, such as its capacity of description, explanation, and prediction, its logical consistency, its perspective or possibility of generalization, its innovation, inventiveness or fruitful heuristic and, ultimately, its simplicity or parsimony.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-12-01T11:09:32Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221143412
Cultivation of Humanity: How we can stagnate within the eternal flow
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  Authors: Marc Antoine Campill
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  By introducing Taoism—the understanding of flow—and the meaning of cultivation as a basic human ability, an essential challenge in our current understanding of science can be discovered. Human interaction with nature is a meaningful process, which can reveal a better understanding of the inner cultivation processes and with it a multidimensional field of endless inputs triggering an ongoing process of growth. For this purpose, MyCu-cultivation (My cultural cultivation) is introduced as new terminology. A construct that allows to separately elaborate the social concepts of culture and the process of metaphysical reality perception—generated in our mind. At the same time, the layers of physical experienced reality and imagination are reintroduced in an alternative interrelation, leading to new insights in the layers of metaphysical understandings. Therefore, the central manifestation of meaning-making will be elaborated through the metaphorical use of bookshelves, allowing to perceive new insights in the raw information processing of individuals—underlining the human limitations, in processing the overwhelming meaning flow. This theoretical knowledge leads us further to a new possibility of understanding the constructive externalization of the imagination, highlighting the diversity of phenomenological insights in our everyday life, resulting in a complex theoretical repositioning between semiotics, cultural psychology, and Naturwissenschaften.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-11-08T11:00:52Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221138912
Understanding Postmodern Identity Among US Young Adults Through an
Investigation of Globalized Interest
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  Authors: Ann Y. Kim
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  The 21st century and internet technology has brought about many changes that includes exposure to new cultures. This creates opportunities for new identities to develop. In this study, the researcher examines identity integration through discussions on engagement in a globalized interest in connection with postmodernism. Twelve college students who were interested in a culture not connected to their own ethnic background were interviewed. The majority of the participants were interested in Japanese anime and Korean pop music while not being ethnically Japanese or Korean. Using Erikson’s theorizing of three levels of identity and Hidi and Renninger’s four phases of interest development, the researcher discusses the integration of participants’ interest into their ego identity, personal identity, and social identity as well as the utilization of the internet for interest development. The researcher ends with suggestions for future identity research that includes considerations around how identity integration might be considered (i.e., identity synthesis) and further investigations around internet content.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-10-25T10:07:49Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221135643
On the problem of generalization in cultural psychology: Aesthetics,
generalizability, and dialogical research
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  Authors: James Cresswell, Jocelyn Melnyk, Rita Diaz
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  A recent special issue of Culture & Psychology focused on dialogic research and the problem of generalizing research from one context to another. A challenge is that the special issue bypassed a crucial discussion of aesthetics, which is a core feature of dialogical research that is important in the discussion about generalization. Using a dialogical approach influenced by Bakhtin, we discuss aesthetics and how it inspires dialogic research. Two features of dialogical research are discussed herein to show where we align with the authors of the special issue: expressed realities (socio-communally constituted realties lived as if given) and ethics. Expressed realities and ethics are foundational for aesthetics and so we seek to add the discussion of aesthetics to the conversation initiated in the special issue. In our efforts to discuss these ideas, we draw upon illustrative examples from interviews about the role of the church in poverty reduction.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-10-21T04:32:49Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221135048
Diverse transnational backgrounds, same master narrative' Constructions of
a national past among middle-school students
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  Authors: Floor van Alphen, Cesar Lopez
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  In this study, we aimed to explore the various ways in which the past is constructed, using or tinkering with a national master narrative, by students surrounded by and immersed in contemporary transnational plurality. Specifically, we studied the permanence of or variations on the Spanish ‘reconquest’ narrative among 14 to 15-year-old students of a public school in Madrid. Semi-structured individual interviews were carried out with 30 students whose families came from Madrid, other regions in Spain and other countries around the world. We carried out a detailed narrative analysis of their constructions of the medieval past on the Iberian Peninsula and found that the ‘reconquest’ narrative still predominates. Few variations in their narratives were found that hint at counternarratives, the ‘travelling’ of narrative schema across national borders, or the transnational trajectories in their families feeding into their constructions. Given these findings, we discuss the role of alternative narrative schema and dynamic concepts of nation and national identity in challenging national master narratives.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-10-20T09:59:17Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221135041
Cultural psychological implications of Hermann Hesse’s
Glasperlenspiel (glass bead game)
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  Authors: Enno von Fircks
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  In the present article, I dissect key elements of Hermann Hesse’s famous novel, the Glass Bead Game (Glasperlenspiel) in order to make them fertile for Cultural Psychology. I originate from the idea that the Glass Bead Game can be understood as a universal language that relies on open ideographs, thus signs that can be combined and structured for multiple purposes. Yet, this universal language is not solely a play; it has an educational drive to educate the mind and to help the individual reaching inner harmony. This play comes into being only when listening to the play of other people interacting with me and me meditating upon the multiple meaning making opportunities of it. I argue that such a perspective is in close accordance with the actual task of Cultural Psychology helping to unravel how people do relate to their environments and the impact that results from this ecological interaction. However, I appeal interested readers in trying to better institutionalize such a cultural psychological purpose of serving the individual in order for Cultural Psychology to be a sustainable and long-lasting science unlike the Glass Bead Game that became an end in itself.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-10-07T12:52:27Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221132000
Cultural and economic attributes of guitar-making vis-à-vis the crafting
of a contextualized gitara teaching model
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  Authors: Reynaldo Inocian, Eldren Joseph Luzano
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  This study unveiled the economic and cultural attributes of guitar-making that serve as basis in the creation of a contextualized teaching model. The study employed a grounded theory design with interviews among 12 key research participants in Abuno, Pajac, and Lapu-Lapu City, selected through convenience sampling. The economic and cultural attributes of making gitara reflect clear Filipino economic and cultural values of resiliency and contentment of luthiers in their working conditions. Guitar-making has transformed to being a source of income with minimal changes in the process as brought by changes in perspectives, economic competition, and technology; however, the commitment, knowledge, and practice of producing handmade guitars are still intact and evident that serve as bases for recommendation for government to support Filipino luthiers and guitar factory owners to design and implement programs to uplift their working conditions and its opportunities for preservation, promotion, and development. Lastly, these serve as the context in the formulation and dissemination of the Gitara Teaching Model as a contextualized teaching model that provides meaningful learning process for quality learner-centered pedagogy in the field of culture-based education, which can also be used in training the youth to become professional luthiers so that this guitar-making culture will flourish.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-10-06T11:39:11Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221132001
Nurturing patriotism and national pride: An ethnographic exploration into
the everyday worlds of Yekolo temari in Washera Qenie School
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  Authors: Taglo Kassa
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Anchored in an ethnographic fieldwork in rural Ethiopia, involving 66 children (12–18 years old) and 17 church scholars, this article looks at how a traditional school of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church nurtures sentiments of patriotism and national pride in Yekolo temari (children in the school). The findings revealed a multitude of pedagogical approaches that the church school employed. The school system also provided the students with ample cultural resources that enhance their national pride and patriotic feeling. This research has practical implications and contributes to the literature on national identity (re)construction, specifically on ways of cultivating patriotism and national pride among schoolchildren.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-09-28T04:50:13Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221129213
The significance of dynamic mind-body cultivation of Li—based on
archetypal mind-body mutual shaping development theory
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  Authors: Wei Xie, Yancui Zhang, Yue Wu, Benyu Guo
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Li (礼) in Chinese culture is an integrated concept of mind and body. Based on C. G. Jung’s idea of mind-body unity, post-Jungians’ archetypal image schema and Chinese self-cultivation view, the study attempts to construct an archetypal mind-body mutual shaping development model in the hope of providing wisdom and theoretical support for the dynamic mind-body cultivation process through Li and its significance for psychological healing, so as to make Li more contemporary and inherited.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-08-13T01:33:28Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221120051
Deaf Identity Salience: Tracing Daphne’s Deaf Identity Salience
Through Switched at Birth
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  Authors: Ryan DeCarsky, Penny Harvey, Sally W Johnston
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Mainstream television scarcely features Deaf persons. When they do, they are usually cameo, secondary, and rarely multidimensional characters. This paper examines Deaf identity of a main character, Daphne Vasquez, on the popular show Switched at Birth. We analyze moments where Daphne’s identity, a constructed Deaf identity, is showcased. We map how her identity is salient across seasons and then examine key moments of identity formation as Daphne negotiates her Deafness. We find a strong display of Deaf identity salience and impactful moments in the show that resulted in more positive, holistic representations of Deafness. In recent years, the media has come under increased scrutiny for limited representations of minority identities; this case study seeks to contribute to that conversation by studying a show explicitly focused on increased representation. This work is important as it not only examines a show which successfully features a character with a traditionally stigmatized identity but simultaneously quantifies how that identity is invoked as a message to viewers. This paper bridges cultural sociology with social psychology to gain a deeper understanding of the importance of identity representation in entertainment media and comments directly on the social impact of Daphne’s character on Deaf presence in 21st century media.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-08-12T12:15:56Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221117178
‘Exploring strategies of semiotic mediation – Making sense of
COVID-19’
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  Authors: Vladimer Lado Gamsakhurdia
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Human meaning-making becomes particularly dramatic at times of social or biological calamities. COVID-19 appeared in the winter of 2020 and had an immense catalytic influence on peoples' lives worldwide. New coronavirus was a new object for many people and they needed the challenge to make sense of it. The meaning of new coronavirus influenceed an individual’s self-positioning in relation to the new threat in the context of related developments. This manuscript reveals the diversity in mediating new coronavirus among discussants representing the same ethnocultural community. Taking the perspective of cultural psychology of semiotic dynamics, we assume that people would make sense of the new coronavirus sourcing semiotic resources from the socio-cultural context; however, simultaneously it is argued that there are no hegemonic ways of reacting to COVID-19. Individuals are considered not passive recipients of external guidance but rather proactive agents whose interpretants serve as regulators of internal and hetero dialogues. Through our exploration, we identified the variety of semiotic techniques which are used by individuals whilst making sense of new signs and developments through various ways of their schematisation and pleromatization. The online-ethnographic research approach was taken to explore various forms of COVID-19 mediation.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-08-12T03:48:56Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221117177
Conceptualising Bhāvana: How do contemplative Hindu traditions inform
understanding emotions and well-being'
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  Authors: Shilpa Ashok Pandit
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  There are more than 150 (grand and micro) theories of emotion. Even as European phenomenological perspectives do mention self and agency, the mainstream discourse on emotion in psychology is quite limited in presenting a coherent theory of affective process. A key aspect of Euro-American theories of emotion is that, these theories are topographically flat, thus, unable to provide mechanisms of transformation of emotion relevant for well-being. In this paper, a theory-based framework for emotional transformation through understanding Indian concepts in āyurveda, yoga sutras and the nātya is discussed. Second, the paper proposes that it is Śānta (the Indian conceptualisation of peace) alone, that permits a substantive possibility to a radical re-emotion or experiencing and articulating well-being. The concept for a radical re-emotion is called Bhāvanā, indicating the possibility of conscious and radical re-creation and re-imagination of affective relationships with objects, concepts, processes and people in the world, re-orienting from the isolated ‘re-appraisal’, ‘self-regulation and control’ of emotion as discussed in the mainstream paradigm. The paper contends that these culturally relevant models educate and inform global psychology theory and applied practice.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-08-09T09:38:45Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221118919
Children’s death and bereavement in antiquity. A psychological and
anthropological analysis of the attachment relationships and coping with
loss
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  Authors: Elena Commodari, Valentina Lucia La Rosa
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Child death is a rare event, especially in industrialized countries. On the contrary, early deaths were frequent in ancient Rome, especially in the first years of life. For example, it was estimated that about 30–40 per cent of children died within the first year of life. For this reason, the low emotional involvement of the parents for their newborns and infants has been hypothesized. This commentary aims to discuss the psychological response to child death in antiquity, focusing on ancient Rome, by analyzing a marble epigraph conserved at the Louvre Museum: the epigraph of Iulia Florentina. Specifically, the idea of parents’ lack of emotional investment in children in antiquity is disproved by modern theories of psychology and psychoanalysis that highlight the universal nature of the attachment bond between child and caregiver. Further studies combining the historical–archaeological and psychological perspectives will help investigate this topic further.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-07-21T02:36:56Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221117173
Sociocultural positivism: Critical evaluation in three research vignettes
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  Authors: Eugene Matusov
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  The paper develops a critical evaluation of sociocultural positivism by contrasting it with universal positivism, on the one hand, and with unique authorial dialogism, stemming from Bakhtin’s dialogical framework, on the other hand. I will bring three research vignettes to make my analysis more grounded: on universal positivism, on sociocultural positivism, and on authorial ethical dialogism. Sociocultural positivism is not rebuked or rejected, but rather it must be limited in search for the boundary of its legitimate use and existence. A complementary framework based on Bakhtin’s philosophical framework of dialogism that would deepen sociocultural positivism is proposed.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-07-11T07:37:42Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221114131
Philosophy of friendship with a place as interpretive support for cultural
psychology
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  Authors: Aleksandra Kunce
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  Why is it important for cultural psychology to look attentively and inspirationally into the depths of the problem of friendship' Focussing on the cultural empowerment of a man, the search for meaning in life, but also in the art of life which binds ars bene vivendi with ars bene moriendi, cultural psychology should not lose sight of the art of friendship, but also of its connection with mobile practices of the contemporary world, for in this space of encounters friendship constitutes a philosophical recommendation and a cultural challenge. I propose therefore turn to the philosophical and cultural space in order to analyse the experience of friendship with a place, interpretively extracting those elements of experience that are crucial for in-depth and contextual thinking about man. Here cultural psychology can find inspiration. I deliberately refer to the transcultural space to indicate the possibilities of experiencing the problem of being in a place. Philosophy of friendship anchored in a transcultural context helps to bring out the multi-dimensionality of the experience of self and the Other, which complements psychological research.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-07-01T01:14:06Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221111803
Moving up the stream beyond resistance to counter move
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  Authors: Marc Antoine Campill, Teppei Tsuchimoto
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  In the following paper, we aim for an extended understanding of the most crucial phenomena itself, the generation of meaning in the interaction with—what we describe as reality. The cultural psychological core principles are re-introduced and connected to a new more holistic construction, elaborating the generation of new meaning. In the same context, new terminology will be introduced, crucial for the understanding of the from phenomenology generated perspective toward cognitive processes and their interrelation with the everyday life. Borders not only as separator but also as deep connector of meaning are for this purpose explored and reintroduced. A procedure that led to central understandings that go far beyond the simple definitions accessible in dictionaries. As significant organic metaphor the river and the meadow (Towards a wholistic model of identity: Why not a meadow' Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 55(1), 112–127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-020-09588-3) will be used and extended by the rabbit hole, a triggered process extending the imagination of individuals by the central counter movement against streams and Gegenstände.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-06-29T02:19:56Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221111452
The homeless mind in a mobile world: An autoethnographic approach on
cognitive immobility in international migration
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  Authors: Ezenwa E Olumba
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  The migration phenomenon, in which the mind travels ahead of the body, especially among would-be travellers, has received scholarly attention within migration studies. Research in this area has not unpacked the cognitive migration experiences of those who have already moved. This autoethnographic article explores the feelings, thoughts and experiences of an individual living abroad in the United Kingdom but cognitively imprisoned at his ancestral home in Igbo land. It draws on the concept of cognitive migration and the author’s own experiences and feelings to introduce and explain the phenomenon of cognitive immobility, which exemplifies the dialectical conflict between the aspirations of longing for and emotions of belonging to a place against a simultaneous desire to remain distant from it. This article advocates the recognition of this cognitive experience of being trapped in place while mobilised in-person elsewhere in migration studies, providing a lens to view such experiences that have erstwhile received inadequate attention. This article contributes to the growing body of knowledge in relation to cognitive migration processes and experiences of those contemplating or participating in human mobility.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-06-27T09:35:06Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221111456
The role of the Ifá in the construction of the person in relation to
death: Psychology’s interface with ideas from the Adjatado of Dogbo, in
Benin
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  Authors: Kwami Fleury Serge Kiki, Danilo Silva Guimarães
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  According to the Adjatado systems of knowledge, the Ifá is a mediator between the world of the living and of the dead and this mediation depends on the funerary rites. Ifá is a word used to refer to the science of divination, the son of God, among other names. It is present from a person’s birth to death. The paper discusses the Ifá’s relation with the cultural processes of the construction of the Adjatado person, assuming its significant role in the lives of the Adjatado people in sustaining personal experience. After discussing selected cultural perspectives, about the meaning of Ifá for the Adjatado people, we propose a dialogue on the construction of the person in relation to death in the framework of Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism in psychology, in which death can be discussed from a philosophical perspective, articulated to the phenomenology of temporality, tradition, and alterity (cf. Simão, 2005; 2010; Simão, Guimarães & Valsiner, 2015), nevertheless, the subject of death has not yet been much explored. We argue that the dialogue here proposed enables an understanding of how the meanings that the Adjatado confer to the experience of death is related to processes that involve the cultivation of the person in the culture, addressing further developments concerning dialogues between diverse cultural understandings on psychological processes.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-06-04T03:52:10Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221097611
Once Upon a Time, Materiality: A Possible Scenario for Psychology in the
Nature/culture Divide
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  Authors: Rosa Traversa
  Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
  The present essay draws on the book “What if Culture was Nature All Along'” (Eds. Vicki Kirby, 2017) and on Karen Barad’s influence to discuss some main concepts of the so-called new materialism in social sciences and humanities over the last decade. It will bring the reader to come across the nature/culture divide as something inherently incorrect from an ontological point of view. Moreover, through different case-studies ranging from allergy, race, paternal post-natal depression, etc. I intend to give some insights into the most controversial and the most insightful attempts to see culture as nothing outside biology in social sciences, and psychology as well. I will then argue how Kirby’s and Barad’s perspective can be a good starting point to re-think critical theory and power-relations as always enmeshed in tangibility, and I will suggest some more empirical patterns for a new material psychological knowledge.
  Citation: Culture & Psychology
  PubDate: 2022-05-21T08:12:18Z
  DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221103979