This chapter provided me deeper understanding of how some ideas and values are shaped, so it has declined my prejudges towards some people and their thoughts I strongly disagreed with considering social class. One’s position in society’s view and the prestige of the job may be associated with the feeling of insufficiency. I was especially […]
I found this chapter one of the most joyful ones to read. For instance, I was impressed by the initial crying melody that differs across cultures, which gives the idea that culture starts to shape us even before birth/at the prenatal stage. I could not comprehend how this change happened, but I assume that even […]
This is the sixth week of the course Cultural Psychology, and I am too tired to read the same concepts continuously. Maybe the Handbook should have a longer introduction with mainstream terms such as independence, interdependence, Asian-American, figure-background, face-mouth, and self-other, so we do not have to read similar findings in each chapter. I know […]
In the two examples of comparing northern and southern İtaly and Protestant and Catholic migrants with the affected cognitive skills and perception, it is quite interesting that even though lifestyle practices (ecological circumstances and political systems for Italy, religious discourses for European migrants) have changed, associated social orientation, and holistic versus analytic thinking comes from […]
In the Method chapter, I was very excited after mentioning the “dynamic construction approach” and the obstacle of what the ‘cultural’ difference is or a confound since it concerns our METU society discussions on the definitions of folklore and tradition. However, throughout the chapter, I did not feel close to having a frame of ‘cultural’ […]
The ‘Culture and Neuroscience’ chapter is very informative. It illuminates how culture affects the mind and gene & culture relationship profoundly and comprehensively in psychology. Comparing self-reports of self-esteem in East Asians and Europeans, I agree with the interpretation of intentionally hiding self-esteem in Eastern cultures and their social modesty norm. In Turkey, we may […]
Being an ‘appropriate’ or ‘culturally pathological/inferior’ person under Western (more powerful) standards, domination, and, pressure is seriously problematic in all agencies in the downward constitution. Especially because today most findings and generalizations in cultural psychology come from the US and middle class in the West, the tendency of people trying to understand the subject to […]