PSYCO341 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Glocalization, Noam Chomsky, Cultural Psychology
19 Sep 2016
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They deal with he notion of culture and acts as a critic of the dominant way psychology and cross cultural psychology deals with the notion of culture. also a critic about the nature of culture. They argue we need to change the way we thought about culture in the past, and psychology also needs to evolve. Arguments of the article: increasing cultural connections, leading to hybridization - our world is increasingly interconnected in ways that are new in the history of the world. They refer to a few di erent types of connections that make the world more and more interconnected (ecological - global warming, demographic. Large scale migration due to a war in syria, economical - shutdown of oil due to isis e ecting the price of things in. Canada, political - the us invading iran had global consequences). So what? they say because of those interconnections it is hard to maintain the notion of old cultural dichotomies like:
