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This edited volume discusses an impressive array of cultural influences — not just country of origin, East-West, or collectivism-individualism — but professional and disciplinary cultures, historical changes in cultures, social class, frontier settlement and geographical regions, political cultures, religion, and gender; and advances several new theories about the origins and processes of cultural development, from biological evolution to the division of labour and other aspects of social class.
List of contents
Contributors
Foreword
Hazel Rose Markus Introduction
Adam B. Cohen Chapter 1: Professional and Disciplinary Cultures
Chi-yue Chiu, Letty Y.-Y. Kwan, and Shyhnan Liou Chapter 2: Generational Cultures
Brittany Gentile, W. Keith Campbell, and Jean M. Twenge Chapter 3: Culture and Social Class
P. J. Henry Chapter 4: Regional Culture
Joseph A. Vandello, Vanessa E. Hettinger, and Kenneth Michniewicz Chapter 5: Frontier Settlement and Cultural Change
Shinobu Kitayama, Michael E. W. Varnum, and A. Timur Sevincer Chapter 6: Political Culture and Democracy
Ariel Malka Chapter 7: Food and Culture
Benoît Monin and Lauren M. Szczurek Chapter 8: Gendered Sexual Cultures
Angela G. Pirlott and David P. Schmitt Chapter 9: Religions as Cultural Solutions to Social Living
Azim F. Shariff, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, and Richard Sosis Index
About the Editor
About the author
Adam B. Cohen, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology at Arizona State University. Dr. Cohen's research fuses cultural and evolutionary approaches to religion. He is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed articles (including "Many Forms of Culture," published in the
American Psychologist in 2009). He is associate editor of the
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Personality Processes and Individual Differences and is a former associate editor of
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Summary
This book brings readers up to date on the newest avenues in the study of culture in psychology by focusing on different forms of culture and processes of cultural transmission, and the evolutionary origins of culture.
