A Psychology of Culture (International and Cultural Psychology) 1st ed. 2018

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Book Description

This ebook; “A Psychology of Culture ” a thought-provoking treatise explores the essential functions that culture fulfills in human life in response to core physiological; psychological; and existential needs. It synthesizes diverse strands of empirical and theoretical knowledge to trace the development of culture as a source of morality; identity; self-esteem;and meaning as well as a driver of domination and upheaval. Extended examples from past and ongoing hostilities also spotlight the resilience of culture in the aftermath of disruption and trauma; and the possibility of reconciliation between conflicting cultures. The stimulating insights included here have far-reaching implications for education; intergroup relations; psychology; politics; and social policy.

Included in the coverage:

·         Culture as shared meanings and interpretations.

·         Culture as an ontological prescription of how to “be” and “how to live.”

·         Cultural worldviews as immortality ideologies.

• ·         Culture and the need for a “world of meaning in which to act.”
• ·         Cultural trauma and indigenous people.
• ·         Constructing situations that optimize the potential for positive intercultural interaction.
• ·         Anxiety and the Human Condition.
• ·         Anxiety and Self Esteem.
• ·         Culture and Human Needs.

A Psychology of Culture (2018) takes an uncommon tour of the human condition of interest to clinicians; practitioners; students of culture;  educators; and its role and effects in human life; and any students in medicine; nursing; anthropology; family studies; sociology; social work; counseling; and psychology. It is especially suitable as a graduate textbook.