Issues in Cultural Diversity

Graduate

An examination of issues associated with the negotiation of individual and intergroup relations in a culturally pluralist society, from an explicitly intercultural psychological perspective that focuses primarily upon the social processes occurring when members of different cultural groups interact with one another. Groups considered include, but are not restricted to, those based on ethnicity, gender, and class. Issues to be covered include the search for universals of social behaviour, the determinants, characteristics, and consequences of acculturative stress, and cultural value differences in the definition of self, inter-personal, and inter-group relations.