文化心理学与本土心理学的辨析

本土心理学与文化心理学是20世纪中后期兴起的两种心理学研究取向,二者在很多地方类同或相似,如都反叛主流心理学,都注重心理和行为的文化差异性与特殊性,都强调主位研究、同文化研究和生态学研究等方法与策略。但二者在研究对象、内容与范围、研究的根本目的、基本假设和方法论等方面也有不同之处。基于二者的类似之处以及“本土”或“本土化”易引起误解和其内涵不明确、不确定等原因,应把它们整合在一起,都采用文化心理学这一概念较为合适。

Comparing Cultural Psychology and Indigenous Psychology

Indigenous psychology and cultural psychology are two approaches which spring up in the middle and end of 20th century respectively.They share many similarities such as both of which oppose mainstream psychology,and stress the cultural difference and peculiarity in people's mind and behavior,and emphasize epic approach,identical-cultural approach and ecological research methodology & way etc.,but they differ in their object content area fundamental purpose,basic mostulate and methodology etc..Owing to their similarities and the reason that "indigenous" or "indigenousize" causes mistake easily,it is suitable to amalgamate them and only use the concept of "cultural psychology".