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Qualitative methodology for describing the cultural character of psychology

Carl Ratner

pp. 123-177

The foregoing tenets of cultural psychology frame the problems that qualitative cultural psychological methodology must address. Our methodology does not simply investigate psychological phenomena in different cultures; the goal is to comprehend culture in psychological phenomena. Qualitative cultural psychological methodology aims to investigate the concrete cultural character of psychological phenomena that derives from particular practical socially organized activities. These activities are organized within a particular social system.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-2681-7_5

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Ratner, C. (1997). Qualitative methodology for describing the cultural character of psychology, in Cultural psychology and qualitative methodology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 123-177.

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