<i>Culture &amp; Psychology</i>: 25 Constructive years

Valsiner, Jaan

doi:10.1177/1354067x19872358

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“…Gradually, ideas became transformed into industries, as in the case of Intelligence testing, leading to greater entrenchment, the reluctance to break away, and the desire to gain entry. Despite strong criticisms leveled from so many different sources, the enterprise of psychology “‘neurotically’ defends its status as an ‘empirical science’” (Valsiner, 2019, p. 430). It had become too large to dismantle or change course.…”

Section: Groups Variables and Industriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…International associations and horizontal collaborations have important roles to play toward social justice in the practice of psychology. To make significant changes, perhaps we must work like “detectives to first discover key ideas behind well-referenced discourse flow of persuasive rhetoric” where theoretical arguments have become replaced with “links with literature” (Valsiner, 2019, p. 431). We must find strategies to break away from these links and join the movement toward a collaborative and comprehensive science of human psychology.…”

Section: Psychology For Social Justice and The Urgent Need To Addressmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Psychology in the “Backyards of the World”: Experiences From India

Chaudhary

Sriram

2020

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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The mind has been the subject of fascination since ancient times, and every cultural tradition has folk theories related to meaning-making, attributions, and explanations about being human. In this sense, the subject of Psychology is as old as humanity, although its rise as a global, scientific discipline is relatively recent, emerging from 20th-century Europe and America. Theoretical ideas and methods generated during the growth of the discipline were aligned with beliefs about human nature and scientific methods specific to Euro-American cultures. Although “preached” and practiced universally as a science, this culturally circumscribed and ideologically bound history of the discipline needs further examination. Rather than “thinking globally” and “acting locally,” the agenda of Psychology has been the reverse; “think locally and act globally,” as critics of mainstream Psychology have pointed out. The predominance of individual, intra-mental, laboratory-tested, quantifiable dimensions of human conduct are based subliminally on Western ideology. The alternative methods of approaching real-life experiences, literature, art, inter-mental phenomena, and other qualitative dimensions of human interactions remain relatively under-explored. The dominant mainstream Psychology is seen as an objective, measurable, and universal science that has had far-reaching consequences for ordinary people around the world. This somewhat sinister side of conventional Psychology is the subject of this article, where we argue that despite significant exceptions and scholarly dissent, the popularity and prevalence of experimental Psychology has marginalized “others” at the expense of its own progress. We use illustrations primarily from teaching, research and practice in Psychology in Indian Universities.

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Section: Groups Variables and Industriesmentioning

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Section: Psychology For Social Justice and The Urgent Need To Addressmentioning

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Psychology in the “Backyards of the World”: Experiences From India

Chaudhary

Sriram

2020

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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“…3 Luta e resistência da psicologia cultural (Valsiner, 2019). Cabe destacar que, nos primórdios das reflexões antropológicas que resultaram na proposição do perspectivismo ameríndio, a psicologia sócio-histórica e a hermenêutica tiveram um papel central ao influenciar algumas das estratégias e entendimentos do conhecimento produzido a partir das etnografias, de modo que os primeiros estudos da área foram considerados um tipo de etnopsicologia:…”

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Luta e resistência: dimensões para a promoção de saúde Mbya Guarani

2020

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Resumo Esse artigo discute como a luta indígena do povo Mbya Guarani pode ser compreendida como uma dimensão necessária para o estudo da promoção de saúde; luta que se dá em uma situação em que as comunidades manifestam a vivência de uma série de conflitos denunciados, como desrespeito do Estado brasileiro aos seus direitos constitucionais. Realizamos uma análise dialógica de discursos de lideranças Mbya Guarani, presentes em noticiários produzidos por coletivos indígenas e no documentário “Teko Rexaĩ: Saúde Guarani Mbyá”. Discutimos as tensões entre a concepção Guarani de Teko Porã e o que está previsto pelo Subsistema de Atenção à Saúde Indígena. Argumentamos que as concepções de saúde e de cuidado, desde o enfoque do construtivismo semiótico-cultural em psicologia e suas interfaces com a reflexão ética, devem considerar o ethos indígena. Isso permite repensar o papel dos agentes de saúde em relação aos problemas relatados pelas lideranças indígenas.

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“…We can engage with a foreign world while sitting in a small windowless apartment and then feel better about our confinement, or yet decide to breach it and leave. These are processes that can explain how they change and emerge both at a social and a psychological leveland they have been a central part of sociocultural psychological research (Valsiner 2019a).…”

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Cabra

2020

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible

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Norms can be defined as sets of relations that define forms of communicating, feeling, acting, and thinking. They define what is allowed and what is not allowed to be said, felt, done, or thought. They are situational and relationally negotiated. Usually described in terms of their functions (descriptive, constitutive, prescriptive), the term commonly designates prescriptive guides. Norms can be more or less explicit, more or less prescriptive, and be more or less opposed and resisted. Authors mostly agree on the fundamental character of norms for human life. Operating at a collective and a psychological level, they guide and constrain human lives. And although sometimes viewed as limiting possibilities rather than creating them, they can be seen as producing a certain set of possibilities and transformed through our engagement with them in our relations to others.

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Culture & Psychology: 25 Constructive years

Cited by 46 publications

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Psychology in the “Backyards of the World”: Experiences From India

Psychology in the “Backyards of the World”: Experiences From India

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