TY - JOUR
AU - Chung-Fang, Yang
AB - Chapter 15 Towards a Person-Making () Perspective Yang Chung-Fang The indigenous approach I have adopted for the past fifteen years entails understanding the psychology of a people within their cultural/social/ historical context (C. F. Yang, 1991a; 1993). The way I have done this is to construct, based on local materials and observations, a set of commonly shared meaning systems with which the people under investigation make sense of their lives and their experiences, and give out and derive meanings while interacting with each other (C. F. Yang, 1991b; 2000a; 2000b; 2001). This set of systems also helps indigenous researchers understand and interpret the behaviors manifested by that people. In the case of Chinese culture, this approach originated and an indi- genization movement flourished from a general dissatisfaction among psychologists and other social scientists over employment of the cross- cultural approach for understanding non-western peoples (Li, K. S. Yang, & Wen, 1985). One of the problems encountered by non-western psychol- ogists in adopting the cross-cultural approach illustrates why I chose the path I report here for investigation of the Chinese conception of self. The problem involves the use of a common framework for compari- son. As Geertz (1984) poignantly pointed 
TI - Indigenous and Cultural Psychology: The Chinese Conception of the Self
DA - 2006-01-01
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