Critical cultural awareness: Contributions to a globalizing psychology.
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Critical cultural awareness: contributions to a globalizing psychology.
The number of psychologists whose work crosses cultural boundaries is increasing. Without a critical awareness of their own cultural grounding, they risk imposing the assumptions, concepts, practices, and values of U.S.-centered psychology on societies where they do not fit, as a brief example from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami shows. Hermeneutic thinkers offer theoretical resources for gaining...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Psychologist
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1935-990X,0003-066X
DOI: 10.1037/a0036851