Pub Date : 2022-05-03DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221097601
G. Rich
The article provides an assessment and overview of the life's work and career of Robert Levine, the leading psychologist anthropologist. His personal biography, awards, career, and accomplishments are described, along with his professional contributions. Special attention is devoted to his contributions to the cross-cultural examination of human development, including his advocacy and thinking regarding the utilization of mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative) and multidisciplinary (e.g., psychology, anthropology, demography, sociology, psychiatry, psychoanalytic) approaches. Attention is also given to description of his contributions to the history of psychological anthropology, to the intersection of culture and psyche, to person-centered studies of the Gusii in Kenya, and to comparative studies of human development, in India, Asia, Africa, and beyond. A critical assessment of the relevance of his fifty year career for culture and psychology today is offered.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-29DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221097125
S. Brinkmann
Hannah Arendt’s unfinished masterpiece The Life of the Mind contains an analysis and spirited defense of thinking, which is more relevant than ever. Thinking, for Arendt, is not simply a cognitive process of problem solving, but is an existential process of meaning making. Unlike cognitions, which are instrumental, Arendt argues that thinking is an activity that is performed for its own sake. In this paper, I follow both Arendt and her teacher, Martin Heidegger, and ask, first, why non-instrumental thinking has become difficult in today’s world. There is a strong cultural critique in Arendt’s perspective on the inherent value of thinking, directed at a society in which almost everything is judged in terms of instrumental performativity. Second, I unfold what I call Arendt’s view of the moral landscape to which thinking is connected, before I conclude by discussing ways in which spaces for thinking in Arendt’s sense can be created in schools, making a form of Bildung possible for human beings.
汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Arendt）未完成的代表作《心灵的生活》（The Life of The Mind）包含了对思维的分析和精神辩护，这比以往任何时候都更有意义。对阿伦特来说，思考不仅仅是一个解决问题的认知过程，而是一个意义创造的存在过程。与工具性的认知不同，阿伦特认为思维是一种为自身目的而进行的活动。在本文中，我跟随阿伦特和她的老师马丁·海德格尔，首先问，为什么非工具性思维在当今世界变得困难。在阿伦特关于思维固有价值的观点中，有一种强烈的文化批判，针对的是一个几乎所有事情都以工具表演性来评判的社会。其次，我展开了我所说的阿伦特关于思维所连接的道德景观的观点，然后我通过讨论在学校中创造阿伦特意义上的思维空间的方式来结束，使人类有可能形成一种Bildung的形式。
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Pub Date : 2022-03-03DOI: 10.1177/1354067X221074342
Fatemeh Saki, A. Ahmadi
Although shamanism dates back to the prehistoric era, reminiscence of its beliefs and representation of them could still be seen in Central Asian communities and the Turkmens of Iran. Spirit possession, fairy possession and Porkhani are all terms used to describe a severe psychotic disorder; this mental disorder can be found in the Turkmen culture in Iran and Central Asia and is commonly explained as possession of the spirit by forces of evil. In this culture-bound syndrome, the patient experiences severe psychosis and shows resistance towards psychiatric treatments but finds relief through specific cultural rituals. This article, which is the outcome of 2 years of field research, aims to explain a phenomenon that is not yet considered a culture-bound syndrome through ethnography using observation techniques, interviewing patients and healers, attending healing rituals, and taking photos and filming. The author believes that without considering the patient’s cultural background, lifeworld, description of the symptoms, and cultural treatment methods, we cannot come to an accurate understanding of this phenomenon.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1177/1354067X211051044
Nicholas Campbell, Mariann Märtsin, David Rodwell
Becoming a parent is one of the most important transitional experiences in adulthood that has significant implications for new parents’ mental and physical health and psychosocial development. A growing body of research examines how men transition to fatherhood and balance their work and family obligations in complex contemporary societies. However, this phenomenological evidence remains under-theorised from the life-course development perspective. In this paper, a semiotic cultural approach to life-course transitions is used to explore how a sample of educated and employed Australian men in heterosexual relationships experienced and made sense of their fatherhood and work and family conflicts. Thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 20 fathers highlights how these fathers attempt to navigate between multiple, ambiguous and sometimes contradictory societal expectations about fatherhood, while also struggling to balance their desires to be a ‘good father’ with their wives and partners’ attempts to be a ‘good mother’, thus evidencing the weak cultural guidance of transition to fatherhood. The analysis shifts the focus away from developmental outcomes and moves towards understanding the semiotic processes through which development occurs in the complex intertwinement between person and their environment. The discussion of men’s dilemmas about fatherhood also underscores the future orientation of human development and highlights how persons are actively and intentionally involved in this movement towards an unpredictable but imagined future.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-20DOI: 10.1177/1354067X211057748
Lucas B. Mazur, Sandra Plontke
Art is a rich area in which to study psychological life through the lens of cultural psychology. While any kind of art can be studied within cultural psychology, in the current piece we argue that an art form known as the donor portrait, and more particularly a subcategory thereof known as the contact portrait, visually depicts core aspects of our psychological lives that constitute matters of fundamental interest within cultural psychology. After briefly discussing this particular art form, we focus on how these portraits visually depict four core aspects of cultural psychology. We first explore how the contact portrait navigates the “frontier problem” found at the intersection of individuality and commonality. We then examine how contact portraits catalyze, but do not cause, the viewer’s emotional engagement. The third aspect concerns the human struggle to make sense out of an unknown future. Finally, we discuss the search for meaningfulness beyond meaning-making depicted within these images and lying at the core of our psychological lives. These characteristics of the contact portrait attest to our human striving towards what lies beyond our current state, something that finds expression in the idea of Schaufrömmigkeit—a pious, humble need to see that which is ultimately unseeable.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-14DOI: 10.1177/1354067X211073917
J. James, T. Thomas, Arya Muraleedharan
The degree to which individuals of a society are uncomfortable with unpredictability and ambiguity is expressed by the Uncertainty Avoidance dimension of Geert Hofstede. Many studies have explored Uncertainty avoidance in terms of factors such as religion, law, and technology. The present study focuses on religion as it is the most explored research area while studying uncertainty avoidance of a culture. Based on this premise, we sought to understand the religious component of uncertainty avoidance in child-rearing practices in Kerala. A total of six participants were interviewed for this study from various districts in Kerala. Parents having children in the age group of 15 to 18 were chosen based on the nature of the study. Data collection was carried out through the interview method using a semi-structured interview schedule consisting of 21 questions developed based on the objectives of the present study. Because participants were not available due to the current Covid-19 circumstances, data were acquired and recorded over the phone. The collected data were transcribed, and thematic analysis was performed. The study’s major themes include a sense of belonging as a Keralite imprinted by Kerala’s rich culture, confidence in religion and overcoming uncertainty, and non-religious aspects of uncertainty. Thus the present study explored the nature and concept of uncertainty avoidance and how religion has been interwoven into child-rearing methods across Kerala.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-13DOI: 10.1177/1354067X211073919
Regitze Lyhne, Brady Wagoner
Building on Burkitt’s (2014) esthetic and relational theory of emotions, this article presents a study that explores how and when shame is experienced, focusing on the role of social and cultural factors in it. People were asked to describe in detail an occasion in which they experienced shame and an occasion in which they observed someone else experiencing it. Following an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis in which the focus is on what the experiences mean to the people having them (i.e., their lifeworld) four dominant themes were identified: Expectations, self-control, feeling exposed, and bodily reactions and empathy. The study showed how these themes are interrelated: the expectations function as a normative frame that defines what behavior is appropriate in a certain situation, which is present in all the cases. Self-control is a tool required to stay within the normative frame, and when one steps outside the frame, shame and other negative feelings can occur, which can lead to a feeling of being exposed. When describing observations of shame, many participants focused on visible, bodily reactions, along with a normative interpretation about what the other person might be feeling in that specific situation. Another interesting tendency is that some participants would describe observed shame that is similar to their own experience of shame. The discussion applies positioning theory to shame and reflects on shaming at a broader societal level.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-20DOI: 10.1177/1354067X211066818
Mimi Xiong, Fengyan Wang
This study aims to use summarizing content analysis and descriptive analysis to examine features related to wisdom in Zhinang Quanji, a collection of classical Chinese wisdom stories by 17th-century writer Feng Menglong, so as to investigate the real-life manifestations of wisdom of ancient Chinese. The results are as follows: (1) the wisdom of ancient Chinese is mainly manifested in 20 different kinds of events. Among these, the following are the five instances of wisdom that appear most frequently: (a) act resourcefully and calmly as the situation demands to deal with emergencies; (b) assist those in a higher position (especially through admonishment or remonstration); (c) take note of even the finest detail and wisely settle disputes; (d) when in bureaucratic circles, clearly analyze the situation and plan far ahead; and (e) on the battlefield, ascertain the mentality of the enemy force, take them by surprise, and overcome them. (2) A total of 932 wise characters are included in Zhinang Quanji. Here, several characteristics are commonly found, including dominant maleness, numerical minority of persons aged under 18 and above 60, and predominance of characters who possess human wisdom. The current findings can provide a useful framework for understanding the manifestation of wisdom in concrete life contexts, thus helping us to better understand and grasp the meaning and nature of wisdom.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-15DOI: 10.1177/1354067X211066816
David C. Jones
The field of creativity studies underrepresents—even excludes—creators who have disabilities. The underrepresentation partly reflects an approach that pathologizes disability. Disability as a pathology or marker of ineligibility makes the contributions of people with disabilities invisible or illegible to creativity research. However, disability operates as a marker of membership in a larger disability culture. Considering disability and creativity as cultural phenomena locates a means for including disabled creators in creativity studies. Cultural models describe creativity in terms of groups sharing values, experiences, and resources. People with disabilities participate in subcultures (e.g., deaf communities) and/or larger cultures (i.e., disability culture). Disability cultures encapsulate shared experiences and values as well as resources. In the following article, I pair three propositions from cultural creativity models with evidence from creators with disabilities to demonstrate that (a) members of disability culture experience the world in ways that generate creative expression, (b) encountering a world designed for abled bodies incites the creativity of disabled people, and (c) disabled and abled people collaboratively create. However, not all methodological approaches effectively include creators with disabilities. Qualitative approaches suit best when the researcher practices reflexivity and allows creators with disabilities the right to manage their own representation within the project.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-15DOI: 10.1177/1354067X211066817
Glen D Rutherford
Relevant to the emerging field of semiotic cultural psychology theory (SCPT), the present paper considers ‘We’, ‘Us’, ‘I’ and ‘Me’ as semiotic and cultural psychology phenomena. Drawing on the semiotics of Saussure, Peirce, Jakobson, and Cousins, a semiotic dynamic ‘double-dyadic’ model of the signifier and the referent is proposed. For each ‘We’, ‘Us’, ‘I’ and ‘Me’, the COVID-19 global pandemic related cases are used to analyse and illustrate the signifier-referent model. Implications are drawn from the new model for the complex systems entailed in organizing self and culture. Finally, suggestions are made for testing the model.
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