Pursuit of Meaning - Advances in Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology (Cultural and Media Studies)

§15§The fields of cross-cultural and cultural psychology both acknowledge the role of `culture' for the constitution of a meaningful practice. There are notable differences as well as remarkable commonalities between nomologically oriented cross-cultural psychology on the one hand and interpretive cultural psychology on the other. Contributions to this book discuss recent theoretical and methodological approaches from both fields in order to explore their joint potential for an advancement of the concept of culture, for the theoretical conceptualization and methodical completion of comparative cultural studies and the scientific understanding of cultural difference.§This volume includes contributions by Ernest E. Boesch, Kenneth J. Gergen, Rom Harr §16§The fields of cross-cultural and cultural psychology both acknowledge the role of `culture' for the constitution of a meaningful practice. There are notable differences as well as remarkable commonalities between nomologically oriented cross-cultural psychology on the one hand and interpretive cultural psychology on the other. Contributions to this book discuss recent theoretical and methodological approaches from both fields in order to explore their joint potential for an advancement of the concept of culture, for the theoretical conceptualization and methodical completion of comparative cultural studies and the scientific understanding of cultural difference.This volume includes contributions by Ernest E. Boesch, Kenneth J. Gergen, Rom Harr §01§Jürgen Straub (Prof. Dr. phil.) ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Sozialtheorie und Sozialpsychologie an der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaft der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Mitglied im Board des Research Departments "Center for Religious Studies" (CERES) sowie einer der Mentoren der Mercator Research Group "Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge: Production and Transfer". Er ist stellvertretender Vorsitzender des internationalen Projekts "Humanismus im Zeitalter der Globalisierung" am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen (KWI) und Fellow des Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR). §01§Dr. Carlos Kölbl, Diplompsychologe, ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Psychologie und Soziologie des Fachbereichs Erziehungswissenschaften der Universität Hannover. §01§Doris Weidemann (Prof. Dr. phil.) lehrt an der Westsächsischen Hochschule Zwickau u.a. Interkulturelle Kommunikation mit dem Länderschwerpunkt China.