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Cultural psychology and phenomenological method - Book of Abstracts

Cultural psychology offers excellent ways to understand the relationshipbetween cultures and mind. It was commonly aware that individual mental lifewas constituted by culture and vice versa. Culture and mind are inseparable.To understand people way of thinking, behaviors and actions, one shouldunderstand their cultures. Culture and mind mutually relate. This is thecentral issue of the cultural psychology. Understanding people and theirculture means looking them from their context. Culture is not out there, butinside the heart of the individual. It lives in the mind and being expressedthrough people behavior and actions. Culture will determine peopleâ€™sbeliefs and ideas. Neglecting culture to understand people is totally wrong,meaningless and illogical. Research on this issue aims to get the meaning andunderstanding about those relationships. Data of this research very muchdepends on the information given and shared by participants. The rightmethod to understand the cultural psychology is phenomenological method.Phenomenological method very much emphasizes on Verstehen or meaningand understanding. It places experience as the central of its analysis. Theparticipants should have lived experience of the phenomena being searched.Understanding people behavior is only possible if we put them into theircontext. This paper will present the importance of phenomenology as amethod appropriate for cultural psychology study. It looks at the human livedexperiences and examine, comprehend, explain the meanings and set aside any pre-judgments regarding the phenomena to avoid preconceptions. Thepresenter will discuss the phenomenological method works. This method willprovide an intimate and in-depth meaning based on individual experience.This method will produce insights and findings, which is not available inother methods, and will be helpful to understand the relationship betweenthe mind and culture and vice versa.