In its traditional guise, cross-cultural psychology is a science of comparative measurement. Its chief method is the regulated observation or recording of behaviour in different cultural milieux and its quantitative conversion into a common metric. This method allows for the estimation of differences across cultures on the strength or magnitude of the behaviour. We can therefore speak of one cu...

Psychiatry lags behind other medical fields in the diagnosis and classification of disorders. While other medical specialties came up with reasonably cohesive nomenclature and organization, mental disorders remain in apparent disarray. The proposed classification model approaches psychiatric disorders using the logic that guided the classification of medical diseases. Brain is not one organ and...

Randomized field experiments, which in the United States has been proposed as the gold standard of educational research, (National Research Council, 2002) is dismissed by some critics as ―positivistic‖. Although this dismissal over identifies positivism with a specific research method, the larger point is accurate: the ―gold standard‖ is often insensitive to local situations and human value and...

This paper argues that Pierre Bourdieu was motivated by the frustration of the French Revolution. His work continually criticized the gap between the ideological promise of the Enlightenment and the actual persistence of inequality in modern France. This paper exposes the centrality of the failed revolution in Bourdieu’s oeuvre by visiting four topics he delved into: Education, gender, globaliz...