Cultural Psychology: Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Perspectives [Paperback]

Cultural Psychology integrates cross-cultural and multicultural approaches into an engaging and comprehensive text.Culture comes in many forms. Cultural Psychology: Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Perspectives combines hard science with everyday issues to explore how the intangible forces of our cultural milieuincluding the power of race, religion, class, and genderpowerfully changes the way we want, think, and do the things that we do. It covers both cross-cultural differences and multicultural issues, incorporating both approaches to tackle modern issues of diversity and living in a diverse world.?Combines both cross-cultural and multicultural approaches in a single comprehensive text.?Includes chapters on the newest, most ground-breaking issues facing the study of culture:oUnpacks the origins of where culture comes fromoDiscusses the history of culture and modern-day laboratory studiesoExplains how culture shapes the brain (and how the brain changes culture)oDescribes cultural change in the era of globalizationProloguePart I: CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR THE QUESTION OF HOW WE DIFFER1.Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality2.Class3.Religion4.Gender5.Region6.Human UniversalsPart II: MULTI-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR WHEN CULTURES COLLIDE7.Intergroup Conflict: Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination8.Ingroup Derogation and Self-Stereotyping9.Identity and Acculturation10.Navigating Diversity: Multiculturalism versus Culture-blindnessPart III: THE FUTURE OF CULTURE11.Where Does Culture Come From?12.Culture and the Brain: Frontiers in Cultural Neuroscience13.Predicting the Future: Tracking Cultural ChangeEpilogueChristine Ma-Kellams is assistant professor of psychology at the University of La Verne. She received her PhD in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work has been published in numerous journals and news outlets, including Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Wall Street Journal, and the Boston GloblÛ