A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans : Creating Knowledge of a Racial Minority (Suny series, Alternatives in Psychology)

Uba, Laura

State University of New York Press（2002/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780791452950
• DDC分類 155.8

基本説明

Looks at the social creation of psychological facts, including portrayals of ethnic and racial groups.

Full Description

Challenges existing paradigms of knowledge as they relate to Asian Americans.

Focusing on race, culture, acculturation, ethnicity, and ethnic identity-concepts commonly used to account for the behaviors of Asian Americans and other minorities-A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans examines the effects of modern psychology's epistemological and ontological premises on its investigative methods and concepts. Author Laura Uba looks at the social creation of psychological facts, including portrayals of ethnic and racial groups, and demonstrates, especially in ways pertinent to the study of minorities, that modern psychology needs to reconsider its ways of thinking about study samples, investigative methods, facts, and concepts used to describe and explain behaviors.

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

1. Modernist Epistemology

2. Postmodernism

3. Privileged Methodological Texts and Narratives

4. Construction of Race and Culture

5. Acculturation and Assimilation

6. Ethnicity and Identity

7. Conclusion

Appendix A: Traditional Types of Psychological Studies

Appendix B: Deconstructing in the Classroom

Notes

References

Name Index

Subject Index