Culture as the co-evolution of psychic and social systems: New perspectives on the person-environment relationship.

Autor/inn/en	Thommen, Beat; Wettstein, Alexander
Titel	Culture as the co-evolution of psychic and social systems: New perspectives on the person-environment relationship.
Quelle	In: Culture & psychology, 16 (2010) 2, S. 213-241Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1354-067X; 1461-7056
DOI	10.1177/1354067X09353208
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Person-Umwelt-Kongruenz; System; Systemtheorie; Kultur; Systemtheorie; System
Abstract	Contributes a new theoretical perspective to the analysis of the relationship between individual and culture, and the person and the environment. First, many hotly debated issues in cultural psychology, such as reification, the discourse of personality traits, and models of part-whole hierarchies are productively addressed. Then, taking a systems-theoretical approach the authors distinguish 3 different types of system and their operational processes (biotic, psychic, and social) and suggest that the person-environment relationship should be conceptualized as a process of coevolution of psychic and social systems. They discuss the critical role of communication in this process and its implications for the concept of culture. The authors' own research on classroom disruptions and problem behavior in educational settings provides illustrative examples for the kinds of methodological considerations generally relevant to a systems-theoretical approach in empirical research. (ZPID).
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier
Update	2011/3