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  • Module I अंतर-सांस्कृतिक मानसशास्त्राची ओळख

    1.1.Charles Darwin and the age-old search for cultural universals 

    1.2.Introducing cross-cultural psychology 

    1.3.Later trends: Cross-cultural psychology or cultural psychology? 

    1.4.What do we talk about when we talk about culture? - Dual influence, Limitations of eco-cultural model 

    1.5.The dynamic process of cultural transmission 

    1.6.Culture and individual levels of analysis and the reliability of culture-level analyses

  • Module II इथिक,इमिक वंशकेंद्रीतता आणि स्वदेशी मानसशास्त्र

    2.1. Where is psychology?
    a. Whereabouts of the written word in psychology 20
    b. Where about of psychology’s practitioners
    2.2. a. Ethics, Emics and ethnocentrism in psychological research
    b. Limitations of Ethic-Emic Model
    2.3. a. Beyond ethnocentrism: Indigenous psychologies
    b. Indigenous psychology in the developing world
    2.4. Indigenous methods
    a. Complimentary with mainstream
     b. Limitations of indigenous psychology movement


  • Module III संस्कृती आणि बुद्धिमता, पूर्वग्रह आणि पालकत्व शैली

    3.1. Culture and intelligence a. What is intelligence? 

    b. The ‘nature’ of intelligence: the heritability hypothesis 

    c. The ‘nurture’ of intelligence: the environmental–cultural hypothesis 

    d. Can intelligence tests be culture-fair? e. Indigenous intelligence 

    f. Everyday intelligence and cognition 

    3.2. Culture and prejudice 

    a. Social psychological theories on the origins of prejudice 

    b. Global support for theories of prejudice: Minimal groups, Contact, Social dominance, realistic conflict 

    3.3. Culture and parenting practices 

    a. Cultural variations in parenting: bedtime, playtime, doing as you’re told 

    b. Cultural commonalities in parenting 

    c. Culturally diverse parental styles and ethno theories 

    d. Parenting is a two-way street: the role of temperament

  • Module IV संस्कृती आणि अपसामान्यात्व

    4.1. a. Culture, abnormality and psychopathology 21 

    b. The debate between Universalists and relativists 

    4.2. a. Universalism, relativism and Schizophrenia

     b. Universalism, relativism and culture-bound syndromes 

    C. Limitations of culture-bound syndrome research 

    4.3. Culture, psychotherapy and healing 

    a. Factors influencing the effectiveness of psychotherapy across cultures 

    1. Conceptual factors: ideas about health and illness 

    2. Interpersonal factors: at the client–therapist interface 

    3. Material factors: access to treatment 

    b. Possession trance: a religious psychotherapy; therapy or pathology? 

    c. Indigenous therapies from around world 

     4.4. Recent developments in culture and psychotherapy: Multiculturalism, globalization and healing