Cultural Processes: An Overview

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511779374.003

1 - Cultural Processes: An Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012

Chi-Yue Chiu ,

Angela K.-Y. Leung and

Edited by

Chi-yue Chiu and

Angela K.-y. Leung: Affiliation:
Singapore Management University
Chi-yue Chiu: Affiliation:
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ying-yi Hong: Affiliation:
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Bickhard (2004) has made the following comments on the development of science:

Every science passes through a phase in which it considered its basic subject matter to be some sort of substance or structure. Fire was identified with phlogiston; heat with caloric; and life with vital fluid. Every science has passed beyond that phase, recognizing its subject matter as being some sort of process: combustion in the case of fire; random thermal motion in case of heat; and certain kinds of far from thermodynamic equilibrium in the case of life. (p. 122)

In the case of cross-cultural and cultural psychology, decades of research have revealed many substantive differences among cultures (see Chiu & Hong, 2006, 2007; Lehman, Chiu, & Schaller, 2004). The field is now ready to transition into a new phase “that empirically establishes linkages between the active cultural ingredients hypothesized to cause between-country differences and the observed differences themselves” (Matsumoto & Yoo, 2006, p. 234).

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Information: Cultural Processes
A Social Psychological Perspective
, pp. 3 - 22

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511779374.003 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2010

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