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“ 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.“
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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
There is no doubt that the psychological relevance of stereotypes and the role that stereotyping plays in ethnocentric attitudes has been an important topic in social psychology, the question concerning if and how stereotypes and ethnocentrism influence psychology as an academic endeavor is rarely raised in the discipline itself
Summary
The problems tackled in this article are related to current social and cross-cultural psychological perspectives on the Indian context 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.”. Stereotypes are based on some idea of ideal type or abstract familiarity They can be closely related to each other and develop into hierarchical systems with broad categories being the general types and specific categories being subtypes. As such, they can even serve as (more or less unreflected) frameworks of scientific theories where they are used as heuristics in order to arrive at scientific conclusions. The process of stereotyping involves the mental categorizing and labelling of objects, people and events
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