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

• Main Authors: COHEN, Dov, HOSHINO-BROWNE, Etsuki, LEUNG, Angela K. Y.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: personal phenomenological experience; culture; outsider; insider; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/406; https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2601(06)39001-6
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...