Week 1: Globalisation

• Globalisation involves the flow of goods, services, ideas, technologies, cultural forms, and people.
• Globalisation is more than a product of technology and economics, according to Kellner (2002).
• Identity issues are a common aspect of bicultural identity.
• Identity confusion occurs in non-western cultures as local cultures change in response to globalisation.
• Globalisation involves extensive and often imposed contact among people from different cultures, nations, and empires with subsequent social, cultural, economic, and political interdependencies and consequences, as per Marsella (2011).
• Bicultural identity is part rooted in local, part global.
• Identity is considered 'untainted by global culture or its values' in some cultures.
• Globalisation is a process of interaction and integration among the peoples, companies, and governments of different nations, as per Chiu, Gries, Torelli, and Cheng (2011).
• Globalisation has a long history, with empires in World History.
• Reducing global interaction can lead to economic, political changes, which can contribute to geopolitical and nationalism.
• De globalisation is the withdrawal of political, military and governmental rule of a colonised land by its invaders.
• For every group there is a culture, which impacts our view of ourselves and the world around us.
• Decolonisation of Psychology involves considering the universal nature of psychology, acknowledging the role of globalisation in colonisation, exploring the cultural validity of research, and using research methods that dovetail with decolonising psychology.
• Globalisation 101 provides information on globalisation related issues such as trade, technology, health, culture, and the environment.
• Undermining the colonialist legacy of psychological science involves considering the universal nature of psychology, acknowledging the role of globalisation in colonisation, exploring the cultural validity of research, and using research methods that dovetail with decolonising psychology.
• Coloniality can be connected with other systems of power such as globalisation.
• Culture involves more than the outward behaviours, about how we think, how we feel, who we think we are and how we relate to others.
• Cross-cultural psychology (CCP) involves comparisons across cultures.
• The very experience of being different from others is psychologically important, as it impacts the way we think about ourselves and our place in the world, and how we interact with others.
• Culture is defined as 'Whatever it is that is necessary to know or believe in order to operate in a manner acceptable to it’s members'.
• Globalisation related issues include trade, technology, health, culture, and the environment.
• Economy, health, technology, culture, and the environment are also represented by global consumer brands, global trade and international regulatory institutions, geographic mobility, and global calamities.
• Cultural Psychology includes general approaches to global perspectives & contexts such as Cross-cultural research, Cultural research, and Indigenous psychology.
• Psychology as a universal discipline is evaluated in terms of its ability to address global and cross-cultural issues.
• Psychology can be seen as either global or local, depending on the perspective taken.
• The interplay between globalisation and other systems is a key aspect of psychology and globalisation.
• Western nations are 'continuing to adhere to conceptual theories and models that failed to capture the complex socio-political and psychosocial determinants of behaviour.' (Marsella, 2011, p.455)
• Global systems include historical events and prevailing norms.
• The lecture also includes a recommended reading of a TED talk on the question of whether language shapes thought.
• Psychology is often seen as a universal discipline, but its nature and stability across cultures and contexts is a topic of debate.
• In summarizing content, it is important to consider how culture is operationalized and investigated.
• Global problems are often discussed but not addressed as a product of globalisation.
• Directed tasks for the lecture include identifying a topic within the module for exploring whether psychology is a global or local phenomenon, developing a list of search terms, implementing the search, and identifying four papers.
• Cultural psychology creates methods based on culture studying in.
• Bronfenbrenner (1977) Ecological model
• Cultural Blocks of universes (Dewey, 1951, p.3)
• Criticisms of CCP include that culture is treated as an independent variable (e.g. culture + depression = x) and that it unfairly biases research methods.
• Barradas, G, T, and Sakka, LS (2022) ‘When words matter: A cross-cultural perspective on lyrics and their relationship to musical emotions’.
• Cross-cultural psychology creates methods based on culture studying in.
• Cross-cultural psychology takes an insider perspective.