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  • Module 3 - Acculturation

  • Stephen Henry Fox, University of Hawaii
  • Book:
    Facing Death Across Cultures
    Published online:
    20 February 2025
    Print publication:
    27 February 2025, pp 35-50

  • Summary

    Module 3 discusses human migration and the processes that happen when cultures meet. Acculturation theories describe models and strategies by which people adapt (or not) when they encounter other cultures in sustained interaction. The processes are affected by the degree of difference between the cultures and the context of the interaction. Outcomes depend on resilience and resources, including symbolic resources by which people maintain their sense of connection to culture.

  • Chapter 26 - Culture and Social Representations

  • from Part VI - From social culture to personal culture
  • Edited by Jaan Valsiner, Clark University, Massachusetts, Alberto Rosa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    04 June 2007, pp 543-559

  • Summary

    A person using a symbolic resource is a person using a novel, a film, a picture, a song, or a ritual, to address an unfamiliar situation in her everyday life. This chapter sketches the historical background of the notion of symbolic resource, and highlights its potential for socio-cultural psychology. It gives a model for the analysis of uses of symbolic resources. The chapter shows how symbolic resources participate to psychological development because of their mediation of three basic psychological processes: intentionality, inscription in time, and distancing. It explains that the symbolic systems and artefacts have as major property the fact that they encapsulate human meaning and experience; people are constantly striving for meaning, especially in moments of change. However, it appears that social sciences are still unable to account for how cultural tools participate in people's personal meaning making, and emotional elaboration as part of psychic transformation.