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Stereotypes in social psychology: The 'West-East' differentiation as a reflection of Western traditions of thought
Stereotype in der Sozialpsychologie: Die "West-Ost"-Differenzierung als Ausdruck westlicher Denktraditionen
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Abstract Notwithstanding the fact that stereotypes and ethnocentrism constitute central topics of social psychology a cultural psychological question has almost been completely neglected in the discipline’s reflections on its own scientific endeavors: How has Western psychology’s construction of the “Indian“... view more
Notwithstanding the fact that stereotypes and ethnocentrism constitute central topics of social psychology a cultural psychological question has almost been completely neglected in the discipline’s reflections on its own scientific endeavors: How has Western psychology’s construction of the “Indian“ and the “Eastern psyche“ been influenced by stereotypes that are embedded in culture-specific traditions of European scholarly and non-scholarly thinking? The problems tackled in this article are related to current social and cross-cultural psychological perspectives on the Indian context. In addition, they are related to social and cross-cultural psychological contributions to the well-established differentiation between the “West“ and the “East,“ which many psychologists have become used to and which are the foundation of current psychological theories about so-called “West-East differences.“... view less
Keywords
social psychology; colonialism; ethnocentrism; east-west comparison; prejudice; India; Western world; cross-culturality; self-image; national stereotype
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Social Psychology
Document language
English
Publication Year
2010
Page/Pages
p. 18-25
Journal
Psychological Studies, 55 (2010) 1
ISSN
0033-2968
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed