An Introduction to Culture and Psychology

An Introduction to Culture and Psychology offers an innovative introduction to culture and psychology, taking a sociocultural approach to understand the intricacies of culture-mind-behaviour interactions.

Valery Chirkov is Professor in the Psychology and Health Studies department at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. His research interests include applied sociocultural psychology, cultural and cross-cultural research, immigration, and acculturation.

01. Culture and psychology: What is Culture, and why is it important for psychologists? 02. Attributes and Characteristics of Culture/s 03. Researching Culture and Psychology; Cross-cultural, Cultural, and Indigenous Psychologies 04. Evolution, Culture, and the Emergence of Modern Humans 05. A History of Ideas about the Sociocultural Regulation of Human Behaviour 06. Culture and human ontogenetic development 07. Socialization and Enculturation 08. Personhood, Selfhood, and Identity in and across Cultures 09. Culture, Language, and the Mind 10. Communication within and across cultural communities: Intra- and inter-cultural interactions 11. Migration and Acculturation