Political Psychology: Cultural and Crosscultural Foundations

ISBN-13: 9780333751039 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 320 str.

Renshon, S.

Opis

Relationships of culture and political psychology shape a wide range of important contemporary political issues. The distinguished contributors to this book make use of diverse theories of psychology, informed by a broadly comparable understanding of the nature of culture. The book is an important landmark in developing the field of political psychology, developing insights from psychological anthropologists, political scientists and crosscultural psychologists. Critical contemporary social, political and cultural issues of ethnic and crosscultural conflict around the world are crying out for theories making use of the powerful lens of culture along with other refractory frameworks.

Spis treści

List of Tables and Figures Preface PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF CROSSCULTURAL POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY Cultural and Crosscultural Political Psychology: Revitalizing a Founding Tradition for a New Subfield ; S.A.Renshon & J.Duckitt The Elusive Concept of Culture and the Vivid Reality of Personality; L.Pye The Relevance of Culture for the Study of Political Psychology; M.H.Ross Taboo Trade Offs: Constitutive Prerequisites for Political and Social Life; A.P.Fiske & P.E.Tetlock Substance and Method in Cultural and Crosscultural Political Psychology; S.Renshon, J.Duckitt, M.H.Ross, O.Feldman, F.M.Moghaddam, G.DeVos, W.G.Stephen & K.Leung PART II: CULTURE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND POLITICAL CONFLICT Culture, Personality, and Prejudice; J.Duckitt The Political Culture of State Authoritarianism; J.Meloen Conflict and Injustice in Intercultural Relations: Insights from the Arab-Israeli and Sino-British Disputes; K.Leung & W.G.Stephan Culture and Ethnic Conflict; M.H.Ross PART III: THE POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY CHANGE IN CULTURAL REGIONS The Political Unconscious: Stories and Politics in Two South American Cultures ; A.Johnson Cultural Nationalism and Beyond: Crosscultural Political Psychology in Japan; O.Feldman Change, Continuity, and Culture: The Case of Power Relations in Iran and Japan; F.M.Mogaddam & D.Crystal Value Adaptation to the Imposition and Collapse of Communist Regimes in East-Central Europe; S.H.Schwartz, A.Bardi & G.Bianchi PART IV: POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY AND THE DILEMMAS OF MULTICULTURALISM Social Authority and Minority Status: Problems of Internationalization and Alienation Among Japanese and Koreans in Diverse Cultural Settings; G.DeVos Multicultural Policy and Social Psychology: The Canadian Experience; J.W.Berry & R.Kalin American Identity and the Dilemmas of Cultural Diversity; S.A.Renshon Index

O autorze

ANAT BARDI PhD candidate of a Doctoral Fellowship, Israel Foundation Trustees J.W. BERRY Professor of Psychology, Queen's University DAVID CRYSTAL Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Georgetown University GEORGE A. DEVOS Professor of Psychological Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley ALAN PAGE FISKE Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles OFER FELDMAN Associate Professor, Naruto University of Education, Japan ALLEN JOHNSON Professor, Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry, University of California, Los Angeles RUDOLF KALIN Professor and Head of Department of Psychology, Queen's University at Kingston KWOK LEUNG Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong JOS D. MELOEN Senior Research, Department of Public Administration (Sociology), University of Leiden, The Netherlands FATHALI M. MOGHADDAM Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. LUCIAN W. PYE Ford Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MARC HOWARD ROSS William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science, Bryn Mawr College WALTER G. STEPHAN Professor of Psychology, New Mexico State University SHALOM H. SCHWARTZ Leon and Clara Sznajderman Professor of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem PHILIP E. TETLOCK Harold Burtt Professor of Psychology and Political Science, The Ohio State University.