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Culture & Psychology
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  • 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
       
  • Introducing Syntheses

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      Authors: Kevin R Carriere
      First page: 177
      Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
      In this short Introduction, we introduce the new submission form of Syntheses. The goal of Syntheses is to provide a summary and expansion of 6–8 articles on a selected topic within Culture & Psychology. The articles should not be restricted to any time point, and the first author of the Syntheses must be a master’s level student or below. Topical syntheses are welcome but are not required. Syntheses articles should be short in length, with a maximum of 2500 words, inclusive of references.
      Citation: Culture & Psychology
      PubDate: 2023-01-09T02:26:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221151015
       
  • 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
       
  • Grief and mourning in Covid-19 pandemic and delayed business as a new
           concept

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      Authors: Eyüp Sabır Erbiçer, Ahmet Metin, Türkan Doğan
      First page: 3
      Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
      The measures, restrictions, and death-related rituals in the COVID-19 pandemic have affected the mourning-related routines of individuals. Moreover, mourning processes have been affected by the restriction of death-related cultural rituals, funeral ceremonies performed only by the officials, and the prohibition of visiting graves. This study aims to investigate the experiences of individuals who lost their loved ones in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic. For that purpose, the phenomenological method is employed in the design of the study. Individual interviews were conducted with nine participants who lost their relatives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected through semi-structured interview forms prepared by the researchers. The study participants described the various factors contributing to the grief and mourning process in the COVID-19 pandemic. These factors were categorized into three following main categories: grief and mourning responses of the individuals lost loved ones, including cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses; risk factors including the expectation of harm, unfinished business, and restriction of death-related religious-cultural rituals; and protective factors including relative support (i.e., family, spouse, friend, partner), tele-support (i.e., mobile phone, internet, social media), positive coping strategies (cognitive, behavioral, and religious-spiritual), and delayed business. The “delayed business” concept was also addressed within protective factors and explained in general terms. Finally, the findings were discussed considering the literature and presented some theoretical and practical implications.
      Citation: Culture & Psychology
      PubDate: 2022-08-12T11:42:25Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221118921
       
  • Walking for well-being. Exploring the phenomenology of modern pilgrimage

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      Authors: Anna Sørensen, Henrik Høgh-Olesen
      First page: 27
      Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
      Modern pilgrimages are gaining popularity in Western culture despite increased secularization. Historically, pilgrimages were a religious ritual with the goal of personal transformation. This study explores the phenomenology of modern pilgrimage: the motivations to go on a pilgrimage, the experience and the subsequent changes. An explorative study was conducted on 142 pilgrims. The results indicate that 74% of the participants were motivated by psycho-existential motives to go on the Camino to Santiago. In addition, 75% of the participants experienced changes in life after walking the Camino. The findings indicate that modern pilgrimage still has transformative potential. Furthermore, six major themes regarding the phenomenology of the Camino emerge from the data: (1) authentic experience, (2) walking in nature, (3) self-transformation, (4) community, (5) simplicity and (6) spirituality, indicating that modern pilgrimage is a multidimensional psycho-existential phenomenon.
      Citation: Culture & Psychology
      PubDate: 2022-09-30T10:45:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221131354
       
  • Cultural constructions of the mentally ill in South Africa: A discourse
           analysis, part one

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      Authors: Ashleigh L Daniels, Dean Isaacs
      First page: 45
      Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
      This article analyses Zulu constructions of mental illness, as according to Zulu Psychology Masters Students from universities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, by means of Foucauldian Discourse analysis. Analysis of qualitative interviews highlighted the complexity surrounding mental illness and psychology within the Zulu culture in South Africa, and revealed various cultural constructions of the mentally ill and psychopathology that have not previously been researched. Elucidated cultural constructions of the mentally ill included constructions of the ill as a contagious diseased state; a threat to peace; a deviant; a vagrant; and a non-social being and non-functional. These constructions placed the mentally ill at the lowest strata level within society. Historically rooted discourses of the black South African’s fight to be resilient, and the philosophical idea of ‘Ubuntu’, intersect with these constructions of the mentally ill. Furthermore, the constructions of the mentally ill are impacted by rural and urban geographic location. Also explored is the discourse of the Zulu mentally ill’s oppressed subject position as the ‘mad’ and black. These elicited constructions and discourses of the mentally ill within Zulu communities, in South Africa, provide a basis for vital future research into the cultural relativity and nosologies of mental illness within the South African context, and wider African context.
      Citation: Culture & Psychology
      PubDate: 2022-10-06T11:36:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221131998
       
  • I’ll never forget: Remembering of past events within the Silent
           Generation as a challenge to the political mobilisation of nostalgia

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      Authors: Sue Nieland, Kesi Mahendran, Sarah Crafter
      First page: 67
      Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
      The political mobilisation of nostalgia is increasingly preoccupying social and political psychologists. A key concern is with rising populism and the use of an imagined golden past to foster threat through anti-EU and anti-immigrant sentiment. This article introduces two key concepts, anemoia – imagining a past not experienced – and prolepsis – how the past influences actions in the present aligned to future goals – to argue that actual recall of past biographical events potentially counters the influence of nostalgic rhetoric designed to influence political decision-making. The focus of this article is a single Scottish case study, Rachel, a member of the Silent Generation of citizens aged over 75 years, who have a living memory of World War II and its aftermath. A dialogical analysis was carried out identifying key I-positions and chronotopic analysis of the dialogical self, relating to experienced extreme childhood poverty and deprivation, anti-Semitism and limited mobility. This demonstrated how living through a historic event and its repercussions, rather than imagining a past not experienced, mitigates against nostalgia. This raises the question of how much mobilisation of the events of a glorious past and anxieties about the future rely upon the unexamined silence of those who recall those same events.
      Citation: Culture & Psychology
      PubDate: 2022-06-13T02:38:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1354067X211066815
       
  • The respect pyramid: A model of respect based on lay knowledge in two
           cultures

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      Authors: Meytal Nasie
      First page: 81
      Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
      Respect is a common social concept, yet how lay people define it has not been thoroughly investigated. This study used a grounded theory approach, using in-depth interviews, to conceptualize respect according to lay knowledge. 40 participants from two cultures in the Middle East—20 Jewish Israelis and 20 Palestinians—reported how they define respect (Kavod in Hebrew and Ihtiram in Arabic). The findings define respect as a complex, multidimensional concept. Based on the findings, a respect pyramid model was developed, which includes four dimensions: avoiding disrespect, deserved/normative respect, conditional respect, and considerate respect. Each dimension indicates an increase in aspects that make the respect less conditional and more intrinsic, while requiring higher sensitivity and greater effort. The implications of the respect pyramid for relationships and the cultural differences regarding definitions of respect are discussed.
      Citation: Culture & Psychology
      PubDate: 2022-01-07T02:09:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1354067X211066819
       
  • The Teaching-Learning Process or the Teaching Process and the Learning
           Process

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      Authors: Walfredo González Hernández
      First page: 96
      Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
      Education in school is conceived from the teaching-learning process where the teacher, student, and group intervene as personal components. In the first part of the article, evidence is shown that this process is not a dialectical interrelation. Later it is demonstrated that this process exists under certain conditions that are explained from the theory of subjectivity. In this explanation, the role of the personal components that teaching and learning are integrated into a process is revealed.
      Citation: Culture & Psychology
      PubDate: 2022-05-16T03:07:19Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221097610
       
  • Alfred Schutz’s ‘Stranger’, the theory of sociocultural models, and
           mechanisms of acculturation

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      Authors: Valery Chirkov
      First page: 116
      Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, the author addresses the mechanisms of the acculturation of people who move across different cultural communities (immigrants, refugees, sojourners, international students, etc.). It starts by analyzing Alfred Schutz’s essay ‘Stranger’ and then connects it to the theory of sociocultural models (TSCM) (Chirkov, 2020a). Schutz’s treatise provides background and a conceptual map for articulating the mechanisms of acculturation. The TSCM elaborates on these concepts and hypotheses and justifies the proposed understanding of the psychological and sociocultural basis of acculturation. The primary idea of this approach to acculturation is that migrants experience a clash and tension between two sets of sociocultural models: from their home communities and from their host communities. Newcomers must understand the sources of this tension; in turn, they must reflect on it and then develop strategies for reconciling these two sets of models. During this process, their selves, rationality, reflective capacities, agency and intellectual autonomy become the primary means for their acculturation success.
      Citation: Culture & Psychology
      PubDate: 2022-05-18T05:39:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221103991
       
  • Muslim minorities’ experiences of Islamophobia in the West: A
           systematic review

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      Authors: Ishba Rehman, Terry Hanley
      First page: 139
      Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
      Islamophobia across the western world appears to be on the rise yet very little is known about it. This review systematically examines qualitative literature to gain an in-depth understanding of Muslim minorities’ experiences of ‘Islamophobia’, and how it may impact upon their psychosocial wellbeing. 180 initial studies were identified across six databases; PsycINFO, ASSIA, Humanities Abstracts (EBSCO), IBSS, CINAHL and MEDLINE, 9 of which met the inclusion and quality criteria. The studies included were analysed using Thematic Synthesis and four key themes were identified; ‘Construction of The Other’, ‘Stigmatisation of Appearance and Attire’, ‘Homogeneity of Identity and Experience’ and ‘Concealing and Normalising Behaviour’. The findings of this review are consistent with previous literature and highlight the difficulties Muslims experience as victims of ‘Islamophobia’. In conclusion, the implications for psychological research and practice are discussed.
      Citation: Culture & Psychology
      PubDate: 2022-05-28T04:20:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221103996
       
  • “Flying over the crisis”: A study on interdisciplinary
           metaphors of resilience

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      Authors: Lisa Milena Kriegsmann-Rabe, Nina Hiebel, Katja Maus, Franziska Geiser
      First page: 157
      Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
      Background/Aim: Metaphors on theoretical concepts may be congruent or divergent from their explicit definitions. We carried out a secondary qualitative analysis on metaphors of members of an interdisciplinary research group on resilience and investigated: (A) Which metaphors do experts in different disciplines use to describe people showing resilience' (B) Do these (implicit) metaphors support the (explicit) theses of the research group on resilience' (C) Do we find differences between experts from different disciplines in the use of metaphors on resilience' Method: Nine guideline-based interviews with experts from medicine, psychology, philosophy, and theology were studied using a systematic metaphor analysis, basing on inductive and deductive categorizations. Results: Eight metaphor sources were identified, for example, battle, path. Experts used similar metaphors to describe resilience that often overarched the concepts of resilience as a trait, process, and outcome. Moments of vulnerability within the resilience trajectory were found. Conclusions: The analysis revealed high concordance of metaphors across different disciplines, reflecting both the ideas of the group as well as the mainstream view of resilience. This supports that implicit concepts may be more difficult to reframe than explicit theories. Few differences between disciplines may point to the impact of an overarching Western concept of individual resilience.
      Citation: Culture & Psychology
      PubDate: 2022-11-15T09:46:19Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221111438
       
  • Manifestations of Depression: Self-Perception, Culture, and Body

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      Authors: Bethany Mulderig, Kevin R Carriere
      First page: 181
      Abstract: Culture & Psychology, Ahead of Print.
      As we emerge in a post-pandemic society, the feelings of isolation present during quarantine persist. But for some, these feelings of isolation have been present long before the pandemic began. The ideal of mental wellness is an important one: depression, anxiety, and persistent feelings of hopelessness severely impact our lives, relationships with loved ones, and our relationship with ourselves. In conjunction with an understanding of mental wellness, there must also be an understanding of mental illness. For in our pursuit of mental wellness after quarantine, we must not forget our compassion for those who have been suffering without. Through this short virtual issue, we invite you to read the following selected articles from Culture & Psychology. Thematically, they may find themselves fitting well with a weekly seminar, or a graduate course on mental health. One may find themselves discovering new insights of theoretical expansion beyond what this Special Issue can provide. Thus, in a quest for the solidification of our compassion, this virtual issue delves into three key aspects of depression: its relationship with ourselves, our cultures, and our bodies.
      Citation: Culture & Psychology
      PubDate: 2022-12-22T02:33:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221145898
       
 
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