Culture and the Structure of Personal Experience: Insider and Outsider Phenomenologies of the Self and Social World

This chapter argues for the importance of understanding the role of culture in structuring people's personal phenomenological experience. Such an understanding is (1) important per se and (2) important for elucidating the feedback loops between culture and self, between macro‐level ideology and...

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Main Authors: COHEN, Dov, HOSHINO-BROWNE, Etsuki, LEUNG, Angela K. Y.
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https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(06)39001-6
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-14052018-06-04T06:18:15Z Culture and the Structure of Personal Experience: Insider and Outsider Phenomenologies of the Self and Social World COHEN, Dov HOSHINO-BROWNE, Etsuki LEUNG, Angela K. Y. This chapter argues for the importance of understanding the role of culture in structuring people's personal phenomenological experience. Such an understanding is (1) important per se and (2) important for elucidating the feedback loops between culture and self, between macro‐level ideology and micro‐level experience. To illustrate, we contrast the “outsider” perspective on the self of Asian‐Americans with the “insider” perspective on the world for Euro‐Americans. We examine (1) the outsider versus insider perspective by looking at the phenomenology of memory imagery, online imagery, visualization and embodiment of narratives, and relational versus egocentric projection; (2) the implications for cultural differences in egocentric biases that derive from dwelling too much in one's own internal experience; and (3) the emergence of developmental differences in characterizing the social world. We argue that the lessons of experience and cultural ideology cocreate each other, and we illustrate this by describing some ways that distinct phenomenological experiences are intimately tied to cultural norms, beliefs, and ideals. 2007-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/406 info:doi/10.1016/S0065-2601(06)39001-6 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(06)39001-6 Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University personal phenomenological experience culture outsider insider Social Psychology
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topic personal phenomenological experience
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Social Psychology
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COHEN, Dov
HOSHINO-BROWNE, Etsuki
LEUNG, Angela K. Y.
Culture and the Structure of Personal Experience: Insider and Outsider Phenomenologies of the Self and Social World
description This chapter argues for the importance of understanding the role of culture in structuring people's personal phenomenological experience. Such an understanding is (1) important per se and (2) important for elucidating the feedback loops between culture and self, between macro‐level ideology and micro‐level experience. To illustrate, we contrast the “outsider” perspective on the self of Asian‐Americans with the “insider” perspective on the world for Euro‐Americans. We examine (1) the outsider versus insider perspective by looking at the phenomenology of memory imagery, online imagery, visualization and embodiment of narratives, and relational versus egocentric projection; (2) the implications for cultural differences in egocentric biases that derive from dwelling too much in one's own internal experience; and (3) the emergence of developmental differences in characterizing the social world. We argue that the lessons of experience and cultural ideology cocreate each other, and we illustrate this by describing some ways that distinct phenomenological experiences are intimately tied to cultural norms, beliefs, and ideals.
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author COHEN, Dov
HOSHINO-BROWNE, Etsuki
LEUNG, Angela K. Y.
author_facet COHEN, Dov
HOSHINO-BROWNE, Etsuki
LEUNG, Angela K. Y.
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title Culture and the Structure of Personal Experience: Insider and Outsider Phenomenologies of the Self and Social World
title_short Culture and the Structure of Personal Experience: Insider and Outsider Phenomenologies of the Self and Social World
title_full Culture and the Structure of Personal Experience: Insider and Outsider Phenomenologies of the Self and Social World
title_fullStr Culture and the Structure of Personal Experience: Insider and Outsider Phenomenologies of the Self and Social World
title_full_unstemmed Culture and the Structure of Personal Experience: Insider and Outsider Phenomenologies of the Self and Social World
title_sort culture and the structure of personal experience: insider and outsider phenomenologies of the self and social world
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2007
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/406
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(06)39001-6
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