Fundamental Questions in Cross-Cultural Psychology

Table of Contents

Introduction  Fons J. R. van de Vijver, Athanasios Chasiotis and Seger M. Breugelmans

Part I. Setting the Stage:

1. Fundamental questions of cross-cultural psychology / Fons J. R. van de Vijver, Athanasios Chasiotis and Seger M. Breugelmans

Part II. Explanation of Cross-Cultural Differences:

2. Past and present of cross-cultural psychology / Gustav Jahoda

3. The continuing challenge of discovering psychological ‘order’ across cultures / Walter J. Lonner

4. The ecocultural framework: a stocktaking / John W. Berry

5. Frameworks for explaining cross-cultural variance: a meta-analytic examination of their usefulness / Dianne A. van Hemert

6. The relationship between individual and culture / Seger M. Breugelmans

Part III. Methods for Studying Culture:

7. A fourfold conceptual framework for cultural and cross-cultural psychology: relativism, construct universalism, repertoire universalism, and absolutism / Johnny R. J. Fontaine

8. About chicken and eggs: four methods for investigating culture-behaviour links / Ronald Fischer

9. Qualitative and mixed methods research in cross-cultural psychology / Alison Karasz

10. Bias and real differences in cross-cultural differences: neither friends nor foes / Fons J. R. van de Vijver

Part IV. The Role of Development:

11. Cross-cultural research in the cultural historical activity theory tradition / –úichael Cole, Boris G. Meshcheryakov and I. V. Ponomariov

12. Self, family, and culture: what is common, what changes? / Çiğdem Kağitçibaşi

13. Biology, culture, and development: conceptual and methodological considerations / Heidi Keller

14. Differences and universals in families across cultures / James Georgas

15. An epigenetic view on culture: what evolutionary developmental psychology has to offer for cross-cultural psychology / Athanasios Chasiotis

Part V. Concepts of Culture:

16. Cross-cultural differences as meaning systems / Lutz H. Eckensberger

17. Ulysses returns: lessons from the logbook of a cross-cultural wayfarer / Michael Harris Bond

18. Values: cultural and individual / Shalom H. Schwartz

19. The cultural contexts of organisational behaviour / Peter B. Smith

20. Rethinking culture and the self: some basic principles and their implications / Chi-yue Chiu and Young-hoon Kim

Part VI. Conclusion:

21. Research on behavior-and-culture: current ideas and future projections / Ype H. Poortinga.