Cultural psychology – what is it?

Above and Below Left–Right: Ideological Narratives and Moral Foundations

“…We had both tried to map out the moral domain in our fieldwork in Brazil and India (for Haidt) and in Egypt (for Joseph). We both agreed wholeheartedly with Shweder's dictum that "culture and psyche make each other up" (Shweder, 1990). Yet we also both recognized that the psyche was not a blank slate; it contained certain tools or building blocks, provided by evolution, which constrained and enabled the two-way co-construction of culture and psyche.…”

Narrative, psychology and the politics of sexual identity in the United States: from ‘sickness’ to ‘species’ to ‘subject’

“…The first shift involves a movement in some versions of cultural psychology to analyse the distinct and particular forms of psychological life, directly challenging a vision of 'psychic unity' which suggests a kind of psychological uniformity (e.g. Shweder, 1990;Shweder & Sullivan, 1993). The second shift concerns psychology's own 'interpretive turn' (Held, 2007;Tappan, 1997): its shift towards studying thought, feeling and action as discursively situated.…”

Reflecting on practice: negotiating challenges to ways of working

“…They and others (e.g., Shweder, 1990) argued that once culture is given primacy in our research and practice a number of problems become evident related to assumptions about universality, individualism, and singular reality. (Davidson, 2000), forensic interviewing with Aboriginal people (Powell, 2000), and research (Fielder, Roberts, & Abdullah, 2000).…”