Hwang’s Philosophy for Developing an Indigenous Cultural Psychology

Kwang-Kuo Hwang provides numerous recommendations for how to develop an indigenous cultural psychology. These recommendations may be understood to suggest proceeding according to three stages: (1) beginning with philosophical reflection on the meaning of modernization and exploring the topics of rea...

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Published in:Culture & psychology 2023-06, Vol.29 (2), p.206-228
Main Author: McWhorter, Matthew R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antiquity
Cross-cultural psychology
Cultural tradition
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Modernization
Philosophy
Postmodernism
Psychology
Reality
Social interaction
Wisdom
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Summary:Kwang-Kuo Hwang provides numerous recommendations for how to develop an indigenous cultural psychology. These recommendations may be understood to suggest proceeding according to three stages: (1) beginning with philosophical reflection on the meaning of modernization and exploring the topics of reality and structure (where such reflections ground one’s subsequent development of meta-models concerning self and social interaction), (2) adopting such meta-models as a hermeneutic for interpreting texts associated with one’s cultural tradition, and (3) conducting experimental studies on the basis of hypotheses derived from such cultural interpretations. Hwang’s philosophy is valuable in that it exemplifies a postmodern approach to cultural psychology that integrates traditional pre-modern forms of wisdom with modern methods of scientific investigation.
ISSN:1354-067X
1461-7056
DOI:10.1177/1354067X231169284