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Christopher JC, Wendt DC, Marecek J, et al. Critical cultural awareness: contributions to a globalizing psychology. Am Psychol. 2014;69(7):645-55doi: 10.1037/a0036851.
Christopher, J. C., Wendt, D. C., Marecek, J., & Goodman, D. M. (2014). Critical cultural awareness: contributions to a globalizing psychology. The American psychologist, 69(7), 645-55. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036851
Christopher, John Chambers, et al. "Critical cultural awareness: contributions to a globalizing psychology." The American psychologist vol. 69,7 (2014): 645-55. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036851
Christopher JC, Wendt DC, Marecek J, Goodman DM. Critical cultural awareness: contributions to a globalizing psychology. Am Psychol. 2014 Oct;69(7):645-55. doi: 10.1037/a0036851. Epub 2014 May 19. PMID: 24841336; PMCID: PMC4557738.
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Am Psychol. 2014 Oct;69(7):645-55. doi: 10.1037/a0036851. Epub 2014 May 19.

Critical cultural awareness: contributions to a globalizing psychology.

The American psychologist

John Chambers Christopher, Dennis C Wendt, Jeanne Marecek, David M Goodman

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth College.
  2. Department of Psychology, University of Michigan.
  3. Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College.
  4. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance.

PMID: 24841336 PMCID: PMC4557738 DOI: 10.1037/a0036851

Abstract

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 cultural awareness. Culture, in the hermeneutic view, is the constellation of meanings that constitutes a way of life. Such cultural meanings-especially in the form of folk psychologies and moral visions-inevitably shape every psychology, including U.S. psychology. The insights of hermeneutics, as well as its conceptual resources and research approaches, open the way for psychological knowledge and practice that are more culturally situated.

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