Chapter 01
What Is Cultural Psychology?
Where does the mind come from?
01 What Is Cultural Psychology?02 The Korean Heart03 “I” and “We”04 Side by Side05 Happiness and Sinmyeong06 Meeting the Unfamiliar07 Koreans in Korean Society08 Fate and Ritual
In preparation · The essay for this chapter is in preparation. Meanwhile, start with the key papers below — each has a plain summary and an in-depth explainer.
Key papers in this chapter
The studies that became reference points — each opens a plain summary and an in-depth explainer.
The authors critique cross-cultural psychology, Wundt's Völkerpsychologie, and Shweder's cultural psychology as Western-centric, and propose doing cultural psychology by "defamiliarizing" our most familiar everyday life.
Cultural Psychology - How can we do it?
한성열, 김정운1998CH 01Key paper
Shows that cultural psychology can coexist with mainstream psychology, and proposes research methods suited to it: experiments, social representations, discourse analysis, and analysis of activity.
Methodology in Cultural Psychology
최상진, 한규석CH 01Key paper
A summary of the author's research on core Korean social-psychological concepts — uriseong (우리성, we-ness), jeong (정), simjeong (심정), chemyeon (체면, face), nunchi (눈치), and pinggye (핑계, excuses) — including types of face and excuses.
The Social Psychology of Koreans
최상진2004CH 01Key paper
A literature review showing that social psychology theories born in Western individualist cultures — on exchange, emotional expression, motives, self-presentation and more — do not simply fit Korea, with proposals for how Korean social psychology should be studied.
The Cultural Specificity of Social Psychological Theories: Toward a Social Psychology of Koreans
한규석1991CH 01Key paper