Hamedani Mar Yam G, Markus Hazel Rose
Center for Social Psychological Answers to Real-World Questions (SPARQ), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2019 Apr 11;10:700. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00700. eCollection 2019.
U.S. Americans repeatedly invoke the role of "culture" today as they struggle to make sense of their increasingly diverse and divided worlds. Given the demographic changes, cultural interactions and hybridizations, and shifting power dynamics that many U.S. Americans confront every day, we ask how psychological scientists can leverage insights from cultural psychology to shed light on these issues. We propose that -a tool that represents culture as a multilayered, interacting, dynamic system of ideas, institutions, interactions, and individuals-can be useful to researchers and practitioners by: (1) revealing and explaining the psychological dynamics that underlie today's significant culture clashes and (2) identifying ways to change or improve cultural practices and institutions to foster a more inclusive, equal, and effective multicultural society.
如今，美国人在努力理解他们日益多样化和分化的世界时，不断提及“文化”的作用。鉴于许多美国人每天都面临的人口结构变化、文化互动与融合以及不断变化的权力动态，我们不禁要问，心理科学家如何能够利用文化心理学的见解来阐明这些问题。我们认为，一种将文化视为由观念、制度、互动和个体构成的多层次、相互作用、动态系统的工具，对于研究人员和从业者可能会有帮助，具体体现在：（1）揭示和解释当今重大文化冲突背后的心理动态；（2）确定改变或改进文化实践和制度的方法，以促进形成一个更具包容性、平等性和有效性的多元文化社会。
