Abstract

© Copyright © 2020 Schwartz, Szabó, Meca, Ward, Martinez, Cobb, Benet-Martínez, Unger and Pantea. The present article proposes an integration between cultural psychology and developmental science. Such an integration would draw on the cultural-psychology principle of culture–psyche interactions, as well as on the developmental-science principle of person↔context relations. Our proposed integration centers on acculturation, which is inherently both cultural and developmental. Specifically, we propose that acculturation is governed by specific transactions between the individual and the cultural context, and that different types of international migrants (e.g., legal immigrants, undocumented immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, crisis migrants) encounter quite different culture–psyche interactions and person↔context relations. We outline the ways in which various acculturation-related phenomena, such as acculturation operating at macro-level versus micro-level time scales, can be viewed through cultural and developmental lenses. The article concludes with future directions in research on acculturation as an intersection of cultural and developmental processes.

Highlights

  • Cultural psychology has been well established as a scientific discipline for several decades

  • In addition to the range of under-represented cultural contexts, multicultural individuals are under-explored. We argue that this is a missed opportunity for cultural psychology to study how psychological processes are shaped by multiple cultural influences simultaneously, and the ways in which novel and hybrid cultural processes evolve from the experience of living at the intersection of cultures and contexts

  • We discuss some of these differences where we propose ways to incorporate fundamental cultural-psychology and developmental-science principles into acculturation theory and research

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

Cultural psychology has been well established as a scientific discipline for several decades. The term ‘cultural psychology’ was first introduced by DeVos and Hippler in 1969, its theoretical and historical roots go as far back as the 1920s, when the Vygotsky-Luria Circle, an interdisciplinary group of psychologists, physicians, and educators, was established. Their collaboration centered around the idea of an integrative psychological theory based on the premise that mind, body, and culture were inseparable and that their development was fundamentally shaped by the individual’s socio-cultural context. There remains a need to integrate developmental science principles into cultural psychology

Developmental Importance of Cultural Psychology
KEY POSTULATES OF CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY
KEY POSTULATES OF DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
Acculturation Theory and Research
Developmental Understandings of Acculturation
Types of Migrants
Longitudinal Changes in Public Versus Private Acculturation
Findings
CONCLUSION
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