Professor of Human Development and Pediatrics, Director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Health, and Human Development, 348 Mansfield Rd., Unit 2058, Storrs, CT, 06269-2058, USA.
New Dir Child Adolesc Dev. 2020 Sep;2020(173):101-119. doi: 10.1002/cad.20378.
Culture and human development blossomed as a research enterprise in the last quarter of the 20th century; the energy and innovation of that enterprise are less evident now. Where did it go, and where is it going? In this essay, we examine the shifting fields of cross-cultural psychology, psychological anthropology, cultural psychology, indigenous psychology, and the surge of research on Individualism/Collectivism. Offering both academic and personal perspectives, we reflect on the importance of "culture" as a construct, and the value of focusing on individual development in that context. The way forward now, we suggest, is international and intercultural collaboration of scientists. The challenge for training new researchers from diverse backgrounds, however, is to equip them with the knowledge and insights gained from cross-cultural psychology, psychological anthropology, and their own cultures, rather than simply making the next generation of scholars into new representatives of Western theories of development.
文化和人类发展在 20 世纪最后四分之一的时间里蓬勃发展，成为一个研究领域；如今，该领域的活力和创新力已不如前。它去了哪里，又将走向何方？在本文中，我们审视了跨文化心理学、心理人类学、文化心理学、本土心理学以及个体主义/集体主义研究热潮等领域的变化。我们从学术和个人的角度出发，反思了“文化”作为一个概念的重要性，以及在这种背景下关注个体发展的价值。我们认为，现在的前进方向是科学家之间的国际和跨文化合作。然而，对于培养来自不同背景的新研究人员来说，挑战在于使他们具备从跨文化心理学、心理人类学以及他们自己的文化中获得的知识和见解，而不仅仅是让下一代学者成为西方发展理论的新代表。
