The Indigenisation of Psychology: Birth of a New Science or Rekindling of an Old One?
Author: Diaz-Loving R.
Source: Applied Psychology, Volume 48, Number 4, 1 October 1999 , pp. 433-449(17)
Publisher: Psychology Press, part of the Taylor & Francis Group
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Abstract:
Recent decades have witnessed recurring crises within, and criticism from outside, the Euro-Meso-North-American scientific psychological tradition. The problems are traceable to the lack of cultural and ecosystemic sensitivity on the one hand, and an attempt to indiscriminately generalise findings across behavioural settings, on the other. Based on the construction of a new science, which integrates the behavioural and cultural models, answers are offered to the question of what constitutes universal and idiosyncratic human attributes and social behaviours. The indigenisation of psychology in general and Mexican ethnopsychology in particular are offered as examples of solutions to the stagnation of the ethnocentrically based mainstream. Les decennies recentes ont ete temoins de crises recurrentes au sein meme de la tradition de psychologie experimentale Euro-Meso-Nord Americaine et, l'exterieur, des critiques lui ont ete adressees. Les problemes relevent, d'une part, du manque de sensibilite aux cultures et ecosystemes et, d'autre part, de la generalisation sans discrimination des resultats a travers des cadres comportementaux. Basees sur la construction d'une nouvelle science qui integre les modeles comportementaux et culturels, des reponses sont proposees a ce qui constitue les attributs humains universels et ideosyncrasiques et les comportements sociaux. L'indigenisation de la psychologie en general et de l'ethnopsychologie mexicaine en particulier sont presentees comme exemples de solution a la stagnation du courant principal fonde de maniere ethnocentrique.Language: English
Document Type: Research article
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