9,420
Views
13
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Spotlight Series: Articles

What is culture? Systems of people, places, and practices

References

  • Alcalá, L., Rogoff, B., Mejía-Arauz, R., Coppens, A. D., & Dexter, A. L. (2014). Children’s initiative in contributions to family work in indigenous-heritage and cosmopolitan communities in Mexico. Human Development, 57(2–3), 96–115. https://doi.org/10.1159/000356763
  • Alexander, M. (2012). The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Press.
  • Allen, A. (2016). Feminist perspectives on power. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2016 ed.). https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2016/entries/feminist-power/
  • Anderson, R. E., & Stevenson, H. C. (2019). RECASTing racial stress and trauma: Theorizing the healing potential of racial socialization in families. The American Psychologist, 74(1), 63–75. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000392
  • Arnett, J. J. (2008). The neglected 95%: Why American psychology needs to become less American. The American Psychologist, 63(7), 602–614. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.63.7.602
  • Belich, J. (2009). Replenishing the earth: The settler revolution and the rise of the Angloworld. Oxford University Press.
  • Betancourt, H., & López, S. R. (1993). The study of culture, ethnicity, and race in American psychology. American Psychologist, 48(6), 629–637. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.48.6.629
  • Betzig, L. (2015). Culture. In J. Brockman (Ed.), This idea must die. Scientific theories that are blocking progress (pp. 429–431). Harper Perennial.
  • Blau, P. M. (1977). Inequality and heterogeneity: A primitive theory of social structure (Vol. 7). Free Press.
  • Bonilla-Silva, E. (2010). Racism without racists: Color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Boyer, P. (2015). Culture. In J. Brockman (Ed.), This idea must die. Scientific theories that are blocking progress (pp. 426–428). Harper Perennial.
  • Bronfenbrenner, U. (1979). The ecology of human development. Harvard University Press.
  • Bronfenbrenner, U. (2005). Making human beings human: Bioecological perspectives on human development. Sage Publications.
  • Brown, C. S., Mistry, R. S., & Yip, T. (2019). Moving from the margins to the mainstream: Equity and justice as key considerations for developmental science. Child Development Perspectives, 13(4), 235–240. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12340
  • Campbell, D. T., & Fiske, D. W. (1959). Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix. Psychological Bulletin, 56(2), 81–105. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0046016
  • Carlos, J., & Zirin, D. (2011). The John Carlos story: The sports moment that changed the world. Haymarket Books.
  • Causadias, J. M. (2019). Are you researching the effects of the Trump administration’s state-sponsored racism? Please call it by its name! Medium: National Center for Institutional Diversity. https://medium.com/national-center-for-institutional-diversity/are-you-researching-the-effects-of-the-trump-administrations-state-sponsored-racism-5acab7d4ad3d
  • Causadias, J. M. (2013). A roadmap for the integration of culture into developmental psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 25(4 Pt 2), 1375–1398. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579413000679
  • Causadias, J. M., & Umaña-Taylor, A. J. (2018). Reframing marginalization and youth development: Introduction to the special issue. The American Psychologist, 73(6), 707–712. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000336
  • Causadias, J. M., Updegraff, K. A., & Overton, W. F. (2018a). Moral meta-narratives, marginalization, and youth development. The American Psychologist, 73(6), 827–839. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000252
  • Causadias, J. M., Vitriol, J. A., & Atkin, A. L. (2018b). Do we overemphasize the role of culture in the behavior of racial/ethnic minorities? Evidence of a cultural (mis)attribution bias in American Psychology. The American Psychologist, 73(3), 243–255. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000099
  • Cicchetti, D. (1984). The emergence of developmental psychopathology. Child Development, 55(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.2307/1129830
  • Cole, M., & Wertsch, J. V. (1996). Beyond the individual-social antinomy in discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky. Human development, 39(5), 250–256.
  • Cole, M. (1979). Foreword. In U. Bronfenbrenner (Ed.), The ecology of human development: Experiments by nature and design. Harvard University Press.
  • Cole, M., Gay, J., Glick, J., & Sharp, D. (1971). The cultural context of learning and thinking: An exploration in experimental anthropology. Basic Books.
  • Cooper, C. R., & Denner, J. (1998). Theories linking culture and psychology: Universal and community-specific processes. Annual Review of Psychology, 49(1), 559–584. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.49.1.559
  • Cox, K. L. (2003). Dixie's Daughters: The united daughters of the confederacy and the preservation of confederate culture. University Press of Florida.
  • Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299. https://doi.org/10.2307/1229039
  • Cronbach, L. J. (1957). The two disciplines of scientific psychology. American Psychologist, 12(11), 671–684. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0043943
  • DiAngelo, R. (2018). White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism. Beacon Press.
  • Diez Roux, A. V. (2011). Complex systems thinking and current impasses in health disparities research. American Journal of Public Health, 101(9), 1627–1634. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300149
  • Diez-Roux, A. V. (1998). Bringing context back into epidemiology: Variables and fallacies in multilevel analysis. American Journal of Public Health, 88(2), 216–222. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.88.2.216
  • Duncan, G. J., Magnuson, K., & Votruba-Drzal, E. (2017). Moving beyond correlations in assessing the consequences of poverty. Annual Review of Psychology, 68, 413–434. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010416-044224
  • Durham, W. H. (1991). Coevolution: Genes, culture, and human diversity. Stanford University Press.
  • Edwards, F., Lee, H., & Esposito, M. (2019). Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(34), 16793–16798. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1821204116
  • Fausset, R., Feuer, A. (2017). Far-Right groups surge into national view in Charlottesville. The New York Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20170816015808/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/us/far-right-groups-blaze-into-national-view-in-charlottesville.html
  • Feagin, J. (2013). Systemic racism: A theory of oppression. Routledge.
  • Flamm, M. W. (2007). Law and order: Street crime, civil unrest, and the crisis of liberalism in the 1960s. Columbia University Press.
  • Foucault, M. (1983). Afterword: The subject and power. In H. Dreyfus & P. Rabinow (Eds.), Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics (2nd ed.). University of Chicago Press.
  • Fuller, B., & García Coll, C. (2010). Learning from Latinos: Contexts, families, and child development in motion. Developmental Psychology, 46(3), 559–565. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019412
  • García Coll, C., Lamberty, G., Jenkins, R., McAdoo, H. P., Crnic, K., Wasik, B., & García, H. V. (1996). An integrative model for the study of developmental competencies in minority children. Child Development, 67(5), 1891–1914. https://doi.org/10.2307/1131600
  • Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Barbarin, O., Tolan, P. H., & Murry, V. M. (2018). Understanding development of African American boys and young men: Moving from risks to positive youth development. The American Psychologist, 73(6), 753–767. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000300
  • Geertz, C. (1973). Interpretation of cultures: Selected essays by Clifford Geertz. Basic Books.
  • Geertz, C. (2000). Available light: Anthropological reflections on philosophical topics. Princeton University Press.
  • Gentile, B., Campbell, W. K., & Twenge, J. M. (2014). Generational cultures. In A. B. Cohen (Ed.), Culture reexamined: Broadening our understanding of social and evolutionary influences (pp. 31–48). American Psychological Association.
  • Gibson, K. R., Gibson, K. R., & Ingold, T. (1994). Tools, language and cognition in human evolution. Cambridge University Press.
  • Gjerde, P. F. (2004). Culture, power, and experience: Toward a person-centered cultural psychology. Human Development, 47(3), 138–157. https://doi.org/10.1159/000077987
  • Gonzales, N. A., Knight, G. P., Gunn, H. J., Tein, J. Y., Tanaka, R., & White, R. M. (2018). Intergenerational gaps in Mexican American values trajectories: Associations with parent-adolescent conflict and adolescent psychopathology. Development and Psychopathology, 30(5), 1611–1627. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579418001256
  • Gould, S. J., & Lewontin, R. C. (1979). The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: A critique of the adaptationist programme. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 205(1161), 581–598. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1979.0086
  • Gramsci, A. (1971). Selections from the prison notebooks (Q. Hoare & G.N. Smith Eds.). International Publishers.
  • Haack, S. (1996). Deviant logic, fuzzy logic: Beyond the formalism. University of Chicago Press.
  • Kendal, J. (2011). Cultural niche construction and human learning environments: Investigating sociocultural perspectives. Biological Theory, 6(3), 241–250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0038-2
  • Kendi, I. X. (2017). Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America. Random House.
  • Kendler, K. S. (2005). Toward a philosophical structure for psychiatry. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 162(3), 433–440. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.162.3.433
  • Killen, M., Rutland, A., & Yip, T. (2016). Equity and justice in developmental science: Discrimination, social exclusion, and intergroup attitudes. Child Development, 87(5), 1317–1336. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12593
  • Kitayama, S., & Uskul, A. K. (2011). Culture, mind, and the brain: Current evidence and future directions. Annual Review of Psychology, 62, 419–449. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-120709-145357
  • Kleinman, A. (1995). Writing at the margin: Discourse between anthropology and medicine. University of California Press.
  • Kraus, M., & Torrez, B. (2020). A psychology of power that is embedded in societal structures. Current Opinion in Psychology, 33, 86–90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.07.018
  • Kroeber, A. L., Kluckhohn, C. (1952). Culture: A critical review of concepts and definitions. Papers. Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. Harvard University.
  • Latour, B. (1993). We have never been modern. Harvard University Press.
  • Lonner, W. J., & Malpass, R. S. (1994). When psychology and culture meet: An introduction to cross-cultural psychology. In W. J. Lonner & R. S. Malpass (Eds.), Psychology and culture (pp. 1–12). Allyn & Bacon.
  • Luo, R., & Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2017). Reciprocity between maternal questions and child contributions during book-sharing. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 38, 71–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2016.08.003
  • Markus, H. R., & Kitayama, S. (2010). Cultures and selves: A cycle of mutual constitution. Perspectives on Psychological Science: a Journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 5(4), 420–430. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691610375557
  • McCammon, C. (2018). Domination. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 ed.). https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/domination/
  • Müller, U., & Newman, J. L. (2008). The body in action: Perspectives on embodiment and development. In W. F. Overton, U. Müller, & J. L. Newman (Eds.), Developmental perspectives on embodiment and consciousness (pp. 313–342). Taylor & Francis.
  • Mutz, D. C. (2018). Status threat, not economic hardship, explains the 2016 presidential vote. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(19), E4330–E4339. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1718155115
  • Neville, H. A., Awad, G. H., Brooks, J. E., Flores, M. P., & Bluemel, J. (2013). Color-blind racial ideology: Theory, training, and measurement implications in psychology. The American Psychologist, 68(6), 455–466. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033282
  • Neville, H. A., Viard, B., & Turner, L. (2015). Race and recognition: Pathways to an affirmative Black identity. Journal of Black Psychology, 41(3), 247–271. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095798414523290
  • Northover, S. B., & Cohen, A. B. (2018). Understanding religion from cultural and biological perspectives. In J. M. Causadias, E. H. Telzer, & N.A. Gonzales (Eds.), Handbook of culture and biology (pp. 55–77). Wiley.
  • Odling-Smee, J., & Laland, K. N. (2011). Ecological inheritance and cultural inheritance: What are they and how do they differ? Biological Theory, 6(3), 220–230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0030-x
  • Overton, W. F. (2010). Life-span development: Concepts and issues. In R. M. Lerner (Ed. in Chief) & W. F. Overton (Vol. Ed.), Handbook of life-span development: Vol. 1. Cognition, biology, and methods across the lifespan (pp. 1–29). Wiley.
  • Overton, W. F. (2015). Processes, relations and relational-developmental-systems. In R. M. Lerner (Ed. Chief), W. F. Overton, & P. C. M. Molenaar (Vol. Eds.), Handbook of child psychology and developmental science. Theory and method (7th ed., pp. 9–62). Wiley.
  • Overton, W. F., & Müller, U. (2012). Metatheories, theories, and concepts in the study of development. In I. B. Weiner(Ed. Chief), R. M. Lerner, M. A. Easterbrooks, & J. Mistry (Eds.), Developmental psychology. Volume 6 of the Handbook of psychology (pp. 19–58). Wiley.
  • Pahlke, E., Bigler, R. S., & Suizzo, M. A. (2012). Relations between colorblind socialization and children’s racial bias: Evidence from European American mothers and their preschool children. Child Development, 83(4), 1164–1179. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01770.x
  • Perez-Brena, N. J., Wheeler, L. A., Rodríguez De Jesús, S. A., Updegraff, K. A., & Umaña-Taylor, A. Y. (2017). The educational and career adjustment of Mexican-origin youth in the context of the 2007/2008 economic recession. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 100, 149–163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2017.02.006
  • Pettit, P. (1997). Republicanism: A theory of freedom and government. Clarendon Press.
  • Pettit, P. (2001). A theory of freedom: From the psychology to the politics of agency. Oxford University Press.
  • Quillian, L., Pager, D., Hexel, O., & Midtbøen, A. H. (2017). Meta-analysis of field experiments shows no change in racial discrimination in hiring over time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(41), 10870–10875. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706255114
  • Quintana, S. M., Aboud, F. E., Chao, R. K., Contreras-Grau, J., Cross, W. E., Hudley, C., Hughes, D., Liben, L. S., Nelson-Le Gall, S., & Vietze, D. L. (2006). Race, ethnicity, and culture in child development: Contemporary research and future directions. Child Development, 77(5), 1129–1141. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00951.x
  • Raeff, C. (2006). Individuals in relation to others: Independence and interdependence in a kindergarten classroom. Ethos, 34(4), 521–557. https://doi.org/10.1525/eth.2006.34.4.521
  • Raeff, C. (2011). Distinguishing between development and change: Reviving organismic-developmental theory. Human Development, 54(1), 4–33. https://doi.org/10.1159/000324334
  • Raeff, C. (2017). Going where the action is to conceptualize the person. New Ideas in Psychology, 44, 7–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2016.11.006
  • Rogoff, B. (2003). The cultural nature of human development. Oxford University Press.
  • Romo, L. F., Mireles-Rios, R., & Lopez-Tello, G. (2014). Latina mothers’ and daughters’ expectations for autonomy at age 15 (La Quinceañera). Journal of Adolescent Research, 29(2), 271–294. https://doi.org/10.1177/0743558413477199
  • Roscigno, V. J. (2011). Power, revisited. Social Forces, 90(2), 349–374. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sor034
  • Seaton, E. K., Gee, G. C., Neblett, E., & Spanierman, L. (2018). New directions for racial discrimination research as inspired by the integrative model. The American Psychologist, 73(6), 768–780. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000315
  • Shweder, R. A. (2000). The psychology of practice and the practice of the three psychologies. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 3(3), 207–222. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-839X.00065
  • Snowdon, C. T. (2018). Introduction to animal culture: Is culture uniquely human? In J. M. Causadias, E. H. Telzer, & N.A. Gonzales (Eds.), Handbook of culture and biology (pp. 81–104). Wiley.
  • Spencer-Oatey, H., & Franklin, P. (2012). What is culture. A compilation of quotations. GlobalPAD Core Concepts, pp. 1–22. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/globalpad/openhouse/interculturalskills/global_pad_-_what_is_culture.pdf.
  • Sroufe, L. A. (1970). A methodological and philosophical critique of intervention-oriented research. Developmental Psychology, 2(1), 140–145. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0028598
  • Sue, S. (2009). Ethnic minority psychology: Struggles and triumphs. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 15(4), 409–415. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017559
  • Sullivan, P. (2009). Lift every voice: The NAACP and the making of the civil rights movement. The New Press.
  • Sumner, R., Burrow, A. L., & Hill, P. L. (2018). The development of purpose in life among adolescents who experience marginalization: Potential opportunities and obstacles. The American Psychologist, 73(6), 740–752. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000249
  • Super, C. M., & Harkness, S. (1986). The developmental niche: A conceptualization at the interface of child and culture. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 9(4), 545–569. https://doi.org/10.1177/016502548600900409
  • Szapocznik, J., & Kurtines, W. M. (1993). Family psychology and cultural diversity: Opportunities for theory, research, and application. American Psychologist, 48(4), 400–407. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.48.4.400
  • Telzer, E. H. (2010). Expanding the acculturation gap-distress model: An integrative review of research. Human Development, 53(6), 313–340. https://doi.org/10.1159/000322476
  • Tooby, J. (2015). Learning and culture. In J. Brockman (Ed.), This idea must die. Scientific theories that are blocking progress (pp. 432–436). Harper Perennial.
  • Triandis, H. C. (2007). Culture and psychology: A history of the study of their relationships. In S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds.), Handbook of cultural psychology (pp. 59–76). Guilford Press.
  • Tylor, E. B. (1871). Primitive culture: Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, art, and custom, etc. Murray.
  • Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Quintana, S. M., Lee, R. M., Cross, W. E., Rivas-Drake, D., Schwartz, S. J., Syed, M., Yip, T., Seaton, E., … Ethnic and Racial Identity in the 21st Century Study Group. (2014). Ethnic and racial identity during adolescence and into young adulthood: An integrated conceptualization. Child Development, 85(1), 21–39. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12196
  • von Bertalanffy, L. (1976). General system theory: Foundations, development, applications. George Braziller.
  • Vygotsky, L. S. (1997). The collected works of L.S. Vygotsky: Problems of the theory and history of psychology (Vol. 3). Springer Science & Business Media.
  • Wapner, S., & Demick, J. (1998). Developmental analysis: A holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective. In R. M. Lerner (Ed.), Theoretical models of human development. Handbook of child psychology (Vol. 4, pp. 761–805). Wiley.
  • Weber, M. (1978). Economy and society: An outline of interpretive sociology. University of California Press.
  • Wertsch, J. V. (1998). Mind as action. Oxford University Press.
  • Witherington, D. C. (2007). The dynamic systems approach as metatheory for developmental psychology. Human Development, 50(2–3), 127–153. https://doi.org/10.1159/000100943

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.