Humanistic Phenomena and Cultural Differences(II)

SPEAKER: Kuang-Hui Yeh

Researcher, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica / Co-appointed Professor, Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University

TOPIC: Constructing Indigenous Psychological Theories from a Global Perspective: Reflective emic vs reflexive etic approach

TIME:  13:00-15:00, Tuesday, 25 April, 2023

VENUE: LA 7006, National Sun Yat-sen University

When existing theories and conceptions (especially those from the Western mainstream thoughts) fail to elaborate the phenomena observed by the researchers, one of the most common approaches taken by indigenous psychology is to take on a subjective perspective. However, this lecture aims to further distinguish two ways of theory-making: reflexive subjective methodology and reflexive objective methodology. Furthermore, this lecture also attempts to promote a multi-dimensional paradigm in indigenous psychology through global perspectives.