Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Selected international publications by Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı
- I Cultural and cross-cultural psychology: selected perspectives
- 1 Indigenization and beyond: the process and extent of psychology's growth as an international science
- 2 The continuing quest for psychological universals in categories, dimensions, taxonomies, and patterns of human behavior
- 3 Circumnavigating the psychological globe: From yin and yang to starry, starry night
- 4 The emerging global psychology movement: Lessons from Arab psychology
- II Development in the family context
- III Culture and self
- IV Social change, family, and gender
- V Induced change
- Epilogue
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- References
4 - The emerging global psychology movement: Lessons from Arab psychology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Foreword
- Selected international publications by Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı
- I Cultural and cross-cultural psychology: selected perspectives
- 1 Indigenization and beyond: the process and extent of psychology's growth as an international science
- 2 The continuing quest for psychological universals in categories, dimensions, taxonomies, and patterns of human behavior
- 3 Circumnavigating the psychological globe: From yin and yang to starry, starry night
- 4 The emerging global psychology movement: Lessons from Arab psychology
- II Development in the family context
- III Culture and self
- IV Social change, family, and gender
- V Induced change
- Epilogue
- Subject Index
- Author Index
- References
Summary
During my graduate school and early career days in the 1970s and 1980s, cross-cultural and global psychology were of marginal concern to most American (and European) psychologists. For my part, however, I considered the American psychology of the day to be highly ethnocentric in nature, in part because I had traveled widely in Europe, Asia, and Africa. So it was with great interest that, in 1990, I picked up Berman's (1990) edited volume, Nebraska 's Symposium on Motivation 1989: Cross-cultural Perspectives. Among its prominent chapter authors, Çiğdem stood out as the only non-westerner (Kağıtçıbaşı 1990). As a developmentally oriented social psychologist, I found her systematic way of linking cross-culturally variable family systems to equally variable socialization practices and to social change both novel and convincing – and I still do.
Years later, I had the opportunity to meet Kağıtçıbaşı on a few occasions, such as the Twenty-sixth International Congress of Applied Psychology in Athens. This 2006 Congress was part of the ever-expanding movement to give psychology a global rather than merely Euro-American basis. Following this tradition, my chapter outlines the status and future prospects of psychology in some of Turkey's neighboring Arab countries. In these countries, a battle is now underway for the hearts and minds of their inhabitants, a battle that pits fundamentalist interpretations of Islam against the politically and culturally more liberal frameworks suggested by the forces of modernization.
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- Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture , pp. 50 - 66Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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