Sasao T, Sue S
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024-1563.
Am J Community Psychol. 1993 Dec;21(6):705-27. doi: 10.1007/BF00942244.
Proposed a research framework (the "cube" model) in which community psychologists working in ethnic-cultural communities can make appropriate decisions on conceptual and methodological issues from a culturally anchored, ecological-contextualist perspective. The intent of the model is to articulate ethnic-cultural heterogeneity in community research by elucidating three metamethodological issues: (a) definition of an ethnic-cultural community, (b) applicability of cross-cultural theories and methods to ethnic-cultural community research, and (c) geographical or ecological stability of an ethnic-cultural community. The model posits that ethnic-cultural community research can be conceptualized as a three-dimensional structure that represents an interaction among research questions, methods, and cultural complexity (referring to the extent to which an ethnic-cultural group is defined in a larger ecological context or community both at the individual and collective levels). Future directions for research were discussed in terms of the utility and the limitations of the proposed research model.
提出了一个研究框架（“立方体”模型），在这个模型中，在民族文化社区工作的社区心理学家可以从文化锚定的生态情境主义视角，就概念和方法问题做出适当决策。该模型的目的是通过阐明三个元方法论问题，来清晰表达社区研究中的民族文化异质性：（a）民族文化社区的定义；（b）跨文化理论和方法在民族文化社区研究中的适用性；（c）民族文化社区的地理或生态稳定性。该模型假定，民族文化社区研究可以被概念化为一个三维结构，它代表了研究问题、方法和文化复杂性之间的相互作用（文化复杂性指的是一个民族文化群体在更大的生态背景或社区中，在个体和集体层面上被定义的程度）。从所提出的研究模型的效用和局限性方面讨论了未来的研究方向。
