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Gender and Culture in Psychology : Theories and Practices.
Introduction to psychology of gender that anchors psychological life and personal meaning in social interchanges, language, societal structures and culture.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Gender and Culture in Psychology; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1: Gender and culture in psychology: a prologue; The roots of the new psychological scholarship on gender and culture; Gender and culture in psychology: three kinds of issues; Aims of the book; A road map for reading; 2: Categories and social categorization; Sex categories and gender categories; Ethnic groups, "races," and racialization; From ethnicity to racialization: the invidious uses of "nice" words; Social class; Sexuality and sexualities; Heteronormativity; Who defines heterosexual sexuality?
- Intersectionality: the interrelationship of social categories; 3: Laying the foundation; Culture and human psychology; Defining culture; People as meaning-makers; Ordinariness, deviations, and narrative; Cultural psychology; Who holds the power over meanings?; Dimensions of power; Power and knowledge; Free individuals within governed collectivities; Normalization processes and disciplinary power; Power/knowledge and self-regulation; Knowledge as social artifact; Constructionism in psychology; Making language an object of study; The historical and cultural specificity of knowledge.
- 4: Theories of gender in psychology: an overview; Setting the stage; The power of situations; Toward a cultural psychology of gender; Femininity and masculinity; Gendered identities: mastery, appropriation, and change; Power, gender, and psychology; Asymmetries, differences, and thinking from the outside; Thinking intersectionally about psychological gender and identity; Language and gender; 5: A turn to interpretation; What does "interpretation" mean in research?; The history of interpretative research; Meaning-making always takes place in a social context.
- Individual meaning-making is always situated in cultural systems; Researchers' knowledge is always perspectival; A focus on reasons and interpretations; Where and how do interpretative researchers look for knowledge?; 6: Doing interpretative psychological research; The landscape of interpretative research; Interviews and interviewing in interpretative research; Narratives, rich talk, and interview guides; Creating a good interview situation; How to ask questions in interviews; Historical truth and narrative truth in interviews; Refining the questions and topics as you go.
- The participants in interpretative research; The grounds for selecting participants; Selecting and engaging participants; Listening, reading, and analyzing; Analyses, rereading, and searching for patterns; The ethics of interpretative research; Reflexivity in research; Personal reflexivity; Methodological, procedural, and epistemological reflexivity; Reflexivity in interaction; Trustworthiness and generalizability in interpretative projects; Generalizing beyond a research project; 7: Discursive approaches to studying gender and culture; Discourse and discourses in psychology.