Folk Psychologies Across Cultures by R Murray Thomas

Folk Psychologies Across Cultures by R Murray Thomas

Without taking a single psychology course, ordinary people learn to understand, predict, and explain one anther′s actions, thoughts, and motivations. Many cognitive scientists and philosophers claim that our everyday or folk understanding of mental states constitutes a theory of mind. That theory is widely called folk psychology (sometimes-commonsense psychology). The terms in which folk psychology are couched are familiar ones of "belief" and "desire," "hunger," "pain," and so forth. According to many theorists, folk psychology plays a central role in our capacity to predict and explain the behavior of ourselves and of others. This book has two goals: (a) to provide a framework for analyzing folk psychologies, and (b) to describe multiple forms that folk psychologies assume in different cultures. Features/Benefits: · Cross-cultural perspectives illustrate typical variations of folk thinking in the world′s cultures and help readers understand the varied ways that people they encounter will likely view life. · Each chapter opens with and is structured around a central question the chapter is designed to answer, inviting the reader to participate in exploring the issue at hand. A concluding chapter, "Trends in Folk Psychologies," addresses the value of studying folk psychologies and what can be

". .mandatory reading for students hoping to be service providers and for professionals with a multicultural clientele." 

-- L.M.C. Abbott Trapp

R. Murray Thomas (Ph.D., Stanford University) is an emeritus professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where for three decades he taught educational psychology and directed the program in international education. He began his 50-year career in education as a high school teacher at Kamehameha Schools and Mid-Pacific Institute in Honolulu, then continued at the college level at San Francisco State University, the State University of New York (Brockport), and Pajajaran University in Indonesia before moving to Santa Barbara. His professional publications exceed 340, including 46 books for which he served as author, coauthor, or editor.

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ISBN 13	9780761924609
ISBN 10	0761924604
Title	Folk Psychologies Across Cultures
Author	R Murray Thomas
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2001-10-17
Number of pages	352
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