Increasingly, psychologists have shown a healthy interest in cultural variation and a skepticism about assuming that research with North American and Northern European undergraduates provides reliable insight into universal psychological processes. Unfortunately, this reappraisal has not been extended to questioning the notion of culture central to this project. Rather, there is wide acceptance that culture refers to a kind of social form that is entity-like, territorialized, marked by a high degree of shared beliefs and coalescing into patterns of key values that animate a broad range of cultural performances and representations. Ironically, anthropologists and other scholars in cultural studies have overwhelmingly come to reject this view of culture. Arguably, then, the move in psychology to attend to cultural environments has paradoxically further distanced it from the fields most concerned with cultural forms. This essay reviews this state of affairs and offers a proposal how a more nuanced appreciation of cultural life can be articulated with theories and methods familiar and available to psychologists.

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文化的卢瑟福原子

越来越多的心理学家对文化差异表现出了浓厚的兴趣，并开始怀疑与北美和北欧大学生进行的研究对普遍的心理过程提供了可靠的见解。不幸的是，这种重新评估并未扩展到质疑该项目的核心文化概念。相反，人们广泛接受文化是指一种类似于实体的，被领土化的社会形式，其特征是高度共享的信念，并凝聚成各种广泛的文化表演和表现形式的关键价值观模式。具有讽刺意味的是，人类学家和其他文化研究学者已经绝大多数地拒绝了这种文化观点。那么，可以说 心理学关注文化环境的举动反而使它与最关注文化形式的领域相距甚远。本文回顾了这种情况，并提出了一个建议，如何用心理学家熟悉的理论和方法表达对文化生活的细微差别。