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Nancy Scheper-Hughes (born 1944) is an anthropologist, educator, and author. She is the Chancellor's Professor Emerita of Anthropology and the director and co-founder (with Margaret Lock) of the PhD program in Critical Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. [1]
Cross-cultural psychology "can be thought of as a type [of] research methodology, rather than an entirely separate field within psychology". [6] [7] In addition, cross-cultural psychology can be distinguished from international psychology, with the latter centering around the global expansion of psychology, especially during recent decades ...
Difference theory has roots in the studies of John Gumperz, who examined differences in cross-cultural communication.While difference theory deals with cross-gender communication, the male and female genders are often presented as being two separate cultures, hence the relevance of Gumperz's studies.
Ethnocultural empathy refers to the understanding of feelings of individuals that are ethnically and/or culturally different from oneself. This concept casts doubts on global empathy, which assumes that empathy is "feeling in oneself the feelings of others" regardless of the other's characteristics (e.g. age, gender, and ethnicity) or context. [1]
Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory is a framework for cross-cultural psychology, developed by Geert Hofstede. It shows the effects of a society's culture on the values of its members, and how these values relate to behavior, using a structure derived from factor analysis .
An Apologia of George Peter Murdock. Division of Labor by Gender and Postmarital Residence in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Reconsideration Archived March 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. World Cultures 12(2): 179–203. Kryukov, M. V.(1968). Historical Interpretation of Kinship Terminology.
Gender schema theory is a cognitive theory to explain how individuals become gendered in society, and how sex-linked characteristics are maintained and transmitted to other members of a culture. The theory was formally introduced by Sandra Bem in 1981.
She is internationally recognised as a leading authority on cultural diversity and how culture affects human behaviour and experience. [2] Ward was Head of School of Psychology, Director/Co-director of the Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research, and Direct of the Cross-cultural Programme at Victoria University of Wellington.