Gesellschaft für Kulturpsychologie e.V.
A non-profit organization for the
advancement of cultural psychology in
research and teaching.
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and goals
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News
Ernst-E.-Boesch-Prize 2017 for Prof. Dr. Lutz Eckensberger and Dr. Sarah Demmrich
The Gesellschaft
für Kulturpsychologie has awarded the Ernst-Eduard-Boesch-Prize for the
second time. The prize goes to Prof. Dr. Lutz Eckensberger for his
life's
work in promoting and desseminating the scientific cultural
psychologie. With Lutz Eckensberger a scientist is honored, who worked
together with Ernst E. Boesch and helped to make the Saarbrücken
approach internationally visible as well as developed an own
theoretical approach in cultural psychology. Beside numerous
contributions to methods and methodology of cultural comparison, to
action theory, and cultural psychology his works on moral judgment are
distinguished.
His historically and anthropologically informed contributions to the
development of a cultural psychology distinct from a nomological
psychology are deeply related to the thinking of Ernst Boesch. Lutz
Eckensberger sought for a systematic specification of a "culture
inclusive action theory“. As innovative and creative psychologist he
helped to make the cultural psychology internationally visible, what
can be seen by his vivid connections to colleagues all over the world.
The prize has an amount of 2.500 Euro.
The laudation was carried out by Prof. Dr. Jaan Valsiner (Aalborg University, Denmark).
The Ernst-Eduard-Boesch-prize to young scientists for a distinguished work
was given this year to Dr. Sarah Demmrich. She got the prize for her
distinguished PhD thesis "Personality and Rituals in the Context of
Religious Beliefs of Adolescents". The prise has an amount of 500 Euro
The award took place during the 13th biannual meeting of the
Gesellschaft für Kulturpsychologie that was held from 14th to 16th
September 2017 in Hannover.
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Emigration, Migration and Culture
The 13th biannual meeting of the Gesellschaft für Kulturpsychologie was a joint meeting with the German Society
of Psychologys section ›History of Psychology‹ and was held from
September 10th to 12th in Salzburg, Austria. For further informations
please visit the meetings homepage.
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Ernst-E.-Boesch-Prize 2015 for Prof. Dr. Jürgen Straub
The Gesellschaft
für Kulturpsychologie has awarded the Ernst-Eduard-Boesch-Prize for the
first time. The prize goes to Prof. Dr. Jürgen Straub for his life's
work in promoting and desseminating the scientific cultural
psychologie. With Jürgen Straub a scientist is honored, who represents
a social and cultural psychology basing on human meaning and action. In
the well interdisciplinary handling such complex topics as
autobiographical memory, narrative psychology, historical awareness,
intercultural competence and communication, personal and collective
identity, and violence he impressively documents the outstanding
scientific potential of a theory of action-oriented, interpretive
traversing cultural psychology.
The laudation was carried out by Prof. Dr. Jens Brockmeier (American University of Paris).
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Cultural Dynamics and Psychological Development
The 12th biannual meeting of
the Gesellschaft
für Kulturpsychologie was a joint meeting with the German Society
of Psychologys section ›History of Psychology‹ and was held from
September 10th to 12th in Salzburg, Austria. For further informations
please visit the meetings homepage.
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We mourn Ernst E. Boesch
On July 12, 2014, our founding member Ernst Eduard Boesch has died
unexpectedly in his 98 year of life . The Society for Cultural
Psychology lose with him not only one of its core scientific
personalities, but also a generous patrons. In his last months he
has discussed with us the guidelines for the Science Prize for
Cultural Psychology - donated by him and named after him. The
international cultural psychology loses with Ernst E. Boesch a pionier
who has worked for many decades at the persistently development of this
research domain.
We are grateful that it was granted to us, his critical and alert mind
to know even in his old age as a companion for our scientific projects
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Call for nominations to the Ernst E. Boesch Prize 2015
The Ernst E. Boesch Prize Board of the Gesellschaft für
Kulturpsychologie is inviting nominations for the Ernst E. Boesch Prize
for outstanding scholarly work in the academic field of cultural
psychology.
The Ernst E. Boesch Prize is awarded to scholars who have had a
decisive influence on cultural psychological research (not on classical
intercultural or cross-cultural psychological research). The Prize is
awarded in two categories:
1) An amount of 2,500 EUR to established researchers, who have made essential and enduring contributions to cultural psychology
and
2) An amount of 500 EUR to young scientists for a distinguished work
(e.g., master thesis, PhD thesis or comparable book publications).
The nomination deadline is October 31 2014.
How to nominate?
Scholars holding positions at universities and other
research institutions, including academies, are entitled to nominate
candidates to the Ernst E. Boesch Prize. A self-nomination is not
allowed. The letter of nomination should be written in English or
German and state the reason for the nomination. The nomination should
also include the candidate’s CV and suggest two referees who know the
scholar’s work. Please send the nomination to the board’s chair Prof.
Dr. Carlos Koelbl: Carlos.Koelbl@uni-bayreuth.de
The winner of the Ernst E. Boesch Prize 2015 will be announced in
February 2015. The official award ceremony will take place in Salzburg,
Austria in May 2015. The winner should give a lecture to the members of
the Gesellschaft für Kulturpsychologie there.
If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact the president of the Gesellschaft für Kulturpsychologie Lars Allolio-Näcke.
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The last
biennial meeting of our society took place from June 6th to 8th 2013, at the University Vienna, Austria.
Click for more informations.
The next conference will be held in Salzburg, Austria, June 2015.
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1. Board
(since 2013)
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2. Introduction
The Gesellschaft für Kulturpsychologie (Society for
Cultural Psychology) was founded in Salzburg in 1986, where it still
has its seat today. It is an association of psychologists who are
active both in scientific research and teaching as well as in different
fields of applied psychology. It is internationally oriented and
interested in interdisciplinary co-operation. The society's objectives
are the advancement of theoretical, empirical and applied cultural and
cross-cultural psychology as well as the promotion of relevant ideas in
these fields.
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3. The Society's
Scientific Perspectives and Objectives
Cultural Psychology tries to describe, interpret and
explain culture-specific contexts, conditions and purposes of human
thinking, feeling, intending and acting. Culture is understood
primarily as a symbol-, rule-, knowledge- and orientation-system that
defines not only experience and behavior, but also sense and meaning
structure of cultural objectivations. Cultural symbol-, rule-,
knowledge- and orientation-systems are formed, perpetuated and altered
by social practice.
Cultural psychology encompasses traditional
cross-cultural psychology, though it is theoretically,
methodologically, methodically and practically not limited to the
latter's nomological and technological orientation. Culture comparisons
need not necessarily aim at general, culture-invariant laws and
regularities, and their empirical validation. In addition to
nomological cross-cultural psychology (which owes its progress over the
last three, four decades to a constantly growing number of
contributions especially from North America), (comparative) cultural
psychology is mainly interested in comprehensive description and
interpretative analysis of specific cultural features of psycho-social
reality.
Independent of their theoretical, methodological and
methodic orientation, cultural psychology and cross-cultural psychology
are concerned with all fields of human practice. This means they are
not confined to subjects such as lan-guage, religion, morals and
customs, art in its varied forms, or other specific fields.
In multi-cultural societies that offer many niches for
cultural milieus cultural psychology can be comparative even within a
single society. Life problems that members of specific cultures
experience and articulate (more or less differenti-atedly) as their
own, often serve as a starting point of cultural psychological
research. With its theory building and terminology thus rooted in daily
life experience, cultural psychology aims at practical relevance of its
research. The results of its research can very often be made fertile in
different other fields, as well. One of its higher practical goals is
the analysis and cultivation of possibilities of intercultural
understanding and co-operation within and between societies.
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4. The
Society's Activities
The Gesellschaft für Kulturpsychologie pursues the above
mentioned objectives through following activities:
- organization of conferences;
- publication of conference
documentation and other scientific writings;
- advancement of the cultural psychology's standing at
universities, colleges and research institutes;
- furthering of the co-operation between those active
in cultural psychology as well as between psychology and its
neighboring disciplines.
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6.
Membership
Admission as a member requires proof of scientific or
practical qualification in the field of cultural psychology and is
granted by the board or general meeting respectively on the basis of a
proposal of at least three of the society's members. Currently the
membership fee is 35,-- Euro per year. If you are interested in further
contact with the society we kindly ask you to inform us whether you are
interested in
- a membership in the Gesellschaft
für Kulturpsychologie. If this is the case we would like to ask you to
provide us with an overview over your previous scientific or practical
activities in the field of cultural psychology or cross-cultural
psychology, including their different fields of applied research.
- periodic information on the Gesellschaft für
Kulturpsychologie's current activities.
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7. The
Society's previous Activities
Conferences
The Gesellschaft für Kulturpsychologie has held eleven
conferences, so far (1989, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007,
2009 , 2011, 2013, 2015). The next conference will take place in Hannover in 2017.
Publications
Six of the above mentioned symposia are documented in
anthologies:
Christian G. Allesch & Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha
(Hrsg.). (1990). Perspektiven der Kulturpsychologie.
Heidelberg: Asanger. (For German language table of contents click here.)
Christian G. Allesch, Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha
& Alfred Lang (Hrsg.). (1992). Psychologische Aspekte des
kulturellen Wandels. Wien: VWGÖ. (For German language
table of contents click here.)
Herbert Fitzek & Michael Ley (Hrsg.). (2003). Alltag
im Aufbruch. Gießen: psychosozial.
(= (Zwischenschritte 21) (For German language table of contents click here.)
Christian G. Allesch & Michaela Schwarzbauer
(Hrsg.). (2007). Die Kultur und die Künste. Heidelberg:
Winter. (For German language information click here.)
Rainer Schönhammer (Hrsg.). (2009). Körper, Dinge und
Bewegung.
Der Gleichgewichtssinn in materieller Kultur und Ästhetik. Wien:
facultas. (For German language information click here.)
Fitzek, Herbert & Sichler, Ralph (Hrsg.). (2011). Kulturen
im
Dialog: Felder und Formen interkultureller Kommunikation und Kompetenz.
Gießen: Psychosozial. (=Zwischenschritte 28/29)
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8. The
Society's International Contacts
International and National Societies
European Society for the History of the Human Sciences
(ESHHS)
International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP)
International Society für Cultural & Activity Research (ISCAR)
Fachgruppe
Geschichte der Psychologie (FgGe) der Deutschen Gesellschaft für
Psychologie
Journals
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung (FQS)
Projects
Zentralinstitut
»Anthropologie der Religion(en)« (ZAR)
Hans Kilian und Lotte Köhler Centrum
für sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Psychologie udn historische Anthropologie
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