当代心理学的文化转向

虽然在西方心理学发展的主流历史中,文化及其心理学意义受到了排斥和否定,但在西方心理学作为整体的发展背景中,文化及其理论意义又以各种非主流的形式得到强调。特别是在当代心理学背景中,多种形式的心理学研究中都兴起了以文化为主题的潮流,从而彰显了文化对于心理学而言所隐含的意义。而文化心理学所研究的问题不仅是科学心理学不问的,其视野所见,也是科学心理学看不到的;换句话说,它并不是为了反对科学心理学而诞生,而根本就站在另一种知识的位置。

On Cultural Turning of Contemporary Psychology

Although,culture and its psychological significance are excluded and denied in the mainstream of the development history of Western psychology,culture and its theoretical significance are emphasized by non-mainstream forms in Western psychology.Especially in contemporary psychology background,cultural theme as a mainstream advents in various styles of psychological research,and the implied significance of culture for the psychology is highlighted.The research areas of cultural psychology is not scientific psychology,in other words,it simply stands on the location of another kind of knowledge.