Culture Psychology

Running head: CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
Annotated Bibliography: Cultural Psychology
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Culture Psychology
Cultural Psychology is a topic that has been widely researched on by very many scholars and thus it has very many definitions. For better understanding of cultural psychology a researcher has to understand what culture and psychology this article reviews eight different literatures on how culture affects how people behave.
Kashima, Y. & Gelfand, M. (N.d.). A history of Culture in Psychology. Retrieved on February 5th, 2013 from /psyc/gelfand/KashimaGelfandHistory.pdf
Method and Participants
Kashima and Gelfand, main interest in carrying out this research was to find out when the study of cultural psychology began. The method of study that they use in this article is digging dipper into the history of psychology.
Research design and Procedures
The two authors conduct the study by analyzing a wide range of texts on culture and psychology from ancient times to the modern world and even interviewing several stakeholders in the field.
Results
The two authors found out that the study on history of cultural study has existed throughout human history
Discussion
Kashima and Gelfand define culture as “a set of meanings of information that is genetically transmitted from one individual to another. Which is more or less shared within a population or a group and endures for some generations” (p.4). They believe that the study of culture began during the Renaissance era of the 15th-16th century when many Italian and western scholars a good example is Marco Polo travelled through the Middle East and Far East gathering out information on different ethnic group cultures and after he published his book information about foreign beliefs and customs began to flow into Europe. According to the two authors Columbus,’ an ancient researcher on culture, publication known as Columbus’s letter about his first voyage to his patrons is regarded as the first important ethnographic document of modern times.
Kashima and Gelfand believe that cultural psychology refers to how the culture influences human behaviors and mental processes. They say “it is the environment in which humans find themselves that clouds the shining light of reason, leaving some peoples and their customs darkness of superstition, although there are variants of this line of thinking” (p.6). This article is important to me as a psychologist in that it broadens my knowledge on what culture is, by looking deeply into the history of study of culture and vividly describing the relationship between culture and psychology.
Colendrino-Bucu, A. Guerrero, M. Pascual, B. & Matero, R. (1997). Introduction to Psychology. A Textbook in General Psychology. Quezon: Rex Printing Company.
Method and Participants
Bucu, Guerrero, Pascual, and Matero carried out research on methods used in the study of how culture...