Cultural psychology represents a middle stage of psychological reflection between cross-cultural and indigenous psychology. All of them to various degrees take into account the fact that the cultural context in which an individual operates makes a difference for their perception of the surrounding world.
Migration and Acculturation Strategies
The cultural diversity of the world represents an obvious fact for any observer. This fact becomes even more salient when people of different backgrounds meet through both voluntary and involuntary migrations. Migration implicates acculturation changes that result from the fact that people of different cultural background come into face-to-face contact. These changes pertain to both groups. Different theoretical approaches stress the fact that cultural groups involved in acculturation might display different level of agency, as well as the fact that the acculturation process might be unidirectional or bidirectional (Rudmin 2003; Sam 2006). There...
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Grzymala-Moszczynska, H. (2014). Cultural Psychology. In: Leeming, D.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6086-2_146
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