Culture in Psychology: A Renewed Encounter of Inquisitive Minds

Valsiner, Jaan

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“…In cultural psychology, the importance of others is integral in understanding the individual and how he/she developed, though the notion of external factors is already present in the articles, where there is a focus on how the veteran's surroundings, family, friends, and society in general can help the veteran reintegrate. These factors remain external, but with this paper's understanding of culture (Valsiner 2014a), one becomes able to integrate the different meanings and signs created by others into the veteran, and then by applying a new understanding of liminality, one becomes able to describe the incomplete process as dissonance within the veteran's self. It is because the veterans feel as if he/she is viewed at differently, which when using DST (Bento et al 2014) means the dialog constructing the self becomes negatively charged, because of a discrepancy between the I and the other in me as well as the internal audience.…”

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“…Of the reviewed articles, most use culture to describe different arenas in the soldiers' surroundings, e.g., the military, the deployment zone, or the civil life. One can then assume that they use culture in a cross-cultural context, because they understand culture as a frame in which humans act (Koenig et al 2014, p. 415;Valsiner 2014a). As a consequence, military and social life are separate entities.…”

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A Different Take on the Liminal Process of Veterans Reintegration in Cultural Psychology

Tophøj

Tøffner-Clausen

2018

Hu Arenas

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This article explores how a cultural psychological perspective may enhance the knowledge available regarding the reintegration of veterans. In order to achieve a clear understanding of this phenomenon, a literature review was conducted. The review found that culture could be used to combine the different aspects of transitioning, to create a more complex and coherent understanding of the process. Through the analysis, the following themes emerged: stigmatization of veterans, concerning political, scientific, and societal aspects, which may play a role in the reintegration process. Secondly, an unclear definition of culture was largely present in the articles treated, which may relate to the notion that cultural psychology is remarkably unrepresented in relation to this phenomenon. The role of stigmatization of veterans was discussed in relation to how individual veterans are viewed by others, but also by the veterans themselves. Finally, thoughts regarding further application of the cultural psychological perspective on reintegration were presented.Keywords Culture . Veteran . Reintegration . Liminality . Self Setting the Stage for the ArticleThis article discusses how a cultural psychological understanding can enhance the study of the reintegration of veterans. This has been done by doing a literature review (Shaw 2010; Forrester 2012) that focuses on how culture, self, and identity are presented and, then, comparing these definitions to our own understanding of these terms.Historically, throughout the planet, veterans have been a resource and burden for society. In our time, there has been a focus on PTSD, and how having a diagnosis affects the veterans. But what about the simple transition of being in active duty and a part of Human Arenas (2019) 2:45-59 https://doi

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Section: Culture-as Understood In This Articlementioning

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A Different Take on the Liminal Process of Veterans Reintegration in Cultural Psychology

Tophøj

Tøffner-Clausen

2018

Hu Arenas

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“…Recent decades have seen new attempts at integrating culture and psychology; considering the cultural, social and historical structuring of human psychological processes in order to grasp their complexity (Valsiner, 2012). Developmental cultural psychologist Jaan Valsiner sums this quest up by stating that "psychology needs culture to make sense of the human lives" (Valsiner, 2012, p. 3).…”

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Navigating Cultures: Narratives of Becoming Among Young Refugees in Norway

Schuff

2018

Hu Arenas

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This PhD is a psychological study that explores the lives and experiences of young people growing up crossing cultural categories. I met them through the musical project Kaleidoscope, which is an important context that I describe and analyze. However, this is not an evaluation or a study of Kaleidoscope per se, but an exploration of participants' life worlds and the psychological processes unfolding in participatory and creative communities. The research project has been a collaboration between my main employer Ansgar University College (Departments of Psychology and Intercultural Studies) and the Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ABUP) at Sørlandet Hospital in Kristiansand, while I followed the PhD program in psychology at the University of Oslo. I have had great support along the way, but stand solely responsible for any faults in this work. For clarification; I changed my last name from Schuff to Seip in 2019, between the first and last publications in this project. This means that when I refer to my own work, I will sometimes refer to Schuff (e.g. 2016, 2018, and earlier work) and sometimes to Seip (2020). New name, new stage in lifethe same developing person, still becoming and learning. Acknowledgements I am grateful to everyone who made this learning process possible, and a long road less lonely. First, to all the children and young people I have met in Kaleidoscopethank you! You moved me. Some of you I have met up close, others as part of the community-I have seen you dance, hug and cry, and heard you sing, complain and giggle. I have witnessed you straightening your backs, bravely facing an audience. I have found myself excited and nervous and relieved with you, and often singing and dancing along. Your courage and appetite for life are an inspiration. I hope you dance! I am grateful to all the Kaleidoscope leaders and assistants who have welcomed me, answered questions and made it possible for me to join them during different stages of my research. Thank you, and all the best of luck in co-creating the citizens of tomorrow. To my colleagues at Ansgar University College and all of Ansgarskolenthank you! You are not only colleagues, but also a vital everyday community. I am grateful to librarian and dear friend Birgit Myrene, for all that you are. I want to thank the two main ingroups (departments) that have supported, inspired and sharpened my thinking and passion-Lars Mandelkow, Beate Helmikstøl, Helge Slotten and Linda Fisher-Høyrem (until recently) in the psychology department, and Ingrid Eskilt, Torstein Try and Anne May Abrahamsen in vii intercultural studies. I am grateful to the leaders who have had faith in me and given me the opportunity to pursue this project; former principal Harald Nygaard, current principal Ingunn Folkestad Breistein, and research leader Marie Strand Skånland. Priceless support has also come from the academic gentlemen Reidar Salvesen, Cato Gulaker, Thorkild Bruhn and Øyvind Skjegstad, who make things work. Thanks also go to Martin Jakobsen for the humor and ...

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“…Whether culture is, from the perspective of the individual, an internal or external (contextual) phenomenon—or both—has been discussed widely (cp. Jahoda, 2012; Valsiner, 2012), which shows that the distinction might be problematic. A possible solution for our case is the differentiation between space and place.…”

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The “art” of identity development—Graffiti painters moving through time and space

Watzlawik

2014

Culture & Psychology

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Adolescents choose to be graffiti painters for very different reasons. Depending on their motivations as well as their abilities, different developmental trajectories can be observed within a given group of graffiti painters. In addition, the significance of movement and places has to be considered. On the one hand, the adolescents must have access to certain groups so that these groups can become meaningful for the individual. On the other hand, moving through different places and through time can open up new opportunities as well as creating tensions around different experiences within and between identity facets. Identity development is thus not a static but an ongoing process. For the observer, different influential factors must be considered in order to achieve a rudimentary understanding of this complex process.

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Culture in Psychology: A Renewed Encounter of Inquisitive Minds

Cited by 47 publications

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A Different Take on the Liminal Process of Veterans Reintegration in Cultural Psychology

A Different Take on the Liminal Process of Veterans Reintegration in Cultural Psychology

Navigating Cultures: Narratives of Becoming Among Young Refugees in Norway

The “art” of identity development—Graffiti painters moving through time and space

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