Syllabus/achievement requirements

Obligatory reading: Compendium PSY4500 (content is listed below):

Arnett, J. J. (2002). The psychology of globalization. American Psychologist, 57, 774-783.

Barker, E. (2003). The Scientific Study of Religion? You must be Joking! I L.L Dawson, Cults and New Religious Movements. A Reader (s.7-25). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Note: Explanations of acronyms are to be found in Dawson

Beckford, J.A. (2003). The Continuum Between “Cults” and “Normal” Religion. I L.L. Dawson, Cults and New Religious Movements. A Reader (s.26-31). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Berry, J.W (1997) Lead article. Immigration, acculturation, and adaptation. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 46, 5-68

Berry, J.W. Poortinga, Y.H., Segall M.H. and Dasen, P.R. (2002). Cross-cultural psychology. Research and applications, 2. edition. Chapter: Organization and work (pp.384-406).

Berry, J.W., Poortinga, Y.H., Segall, M.H. and Dasen, P.R. (2002). Cross-cultural psychology. Research and applications, 2.edition. Chapter: Perception (pp.196-221).

Blakar, R.M. (1979). Language as a means of social power. In J.L Mey (Ed.), Pragmalinguistics: Theory and Practice Vol. 85, Series Janua Linguarum(s. 131-169). The Hague: Mouton.

Blakar, R.M.. (1984). Communication: Theory and research in terms of preconditions. I R.M. Blakar, Communication: A social perspective on clinical issues (s. 21-48). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.

Cummins, J. (2000). Language, power and pedagogy. Bilingual children in the crossfire (Chapter 2, 31-52). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

Dawson, L.L. (2003) Introduction: The book and the subject. In L.L. Dawson (ed.) Cults and new religious movement. A reader. (pp.1-3). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Dion, K.L. (2003). Prejudice, racism, and discrimination. I T.Millon & M.J. Lerner (Eds.), Handbook of Psychology: Personality and social psychology (pp. 507-536). N.Y.: Wiley.

Duckitt, J. (1992). Psychology and prejudice. A historical analysis and integrative framework. American Psychologist, 47 (pp.1182-1193).

Gardiner, H. W. & Kosmitzki, C. (2002). Cross-cultural human development. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. Pp.18-29, 33-34 and 131-147.

Heath, S.B. (1982) What no bedtime story means: Narrative skills at home and school. Language in society 11, 49-76.

Hundeide, K. (2002). The mind between us. Nordisk Psykologi 54, 69-90.

Much, N.C. (1992). The Sword of Manjusri: A Postmodern Morality of Intellect and Skillful Means for Relative Worlds. In D. N Robinson, Social Discourse and Moral Judgement. ( pp. 133-150). New York: Academic Press.

Pargament, K. I. & Mahoney, A. (2001). Spirituality. Discovering and conserving the sacred. I C.R Snyder, & S.J Lopez (Eds.), Handbook of Positive Psychology (s. 646-659). New York: Oxford University Press.

Pettigrew, T. F. (1997). Personality and social structure. Social psychological contributions. In R. Hogan, J. Johnson, & S. Briggs (Eds.), Handbook of personality psychology pp. 417-438. New York: Academic Press.

Rogoff, B. (2003). The Cultural Nature of Human Development. (pp.102-117, 194-235). Oxford University Press.

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