Comparative qualitative research in cultural psychology: challenges and potentials

Abstract: "The present paper aims to provide an approach that allows to study the interplay of culture and psychological human functioning in comparative study designs. Starting out with a brief overview of how qualitative, cultural, and comparative research is addressed in the field of psychology we will take a Cultural Psychology approach to suggest that the unit of analysis for comparative research needs to be situated social interaction. We will then suggest an integrative approach that allows us to study social interaction both on a microand on a macro-level by combining discourse analysis of situated social interaction with ethnographic procedures that address the sociocultural embeddedness of these interactional practices. We illustrate this approach by examining analyses drawn on a comparative study program conducted on middle class families in Los Angeles and Rome. Finally, we will discuss some criteria of validity that particularly apply to the field of comparative research in Cult

Alternative title
Vergleichende qualitative Forschung in der Kulturpsychologie: Herausforderungen und Potentiale
Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung ; 13 (2012) 1/2 ; 13-37

Classification
Psychologie

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2012
Creator
Demuth, Carolin
Fatigante, Marilena

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-387044
Rights
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Demuth, Carolin
  • Fatigante, Marilena

Time of origin

  • 2012

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