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- Miki Takasuna's paper explores how Western psychological methods have influenced psychology in Japan, highlighting the historical context and unity within the field.
- The author emphasizes the differences between countries that import and export psychological practices, suggesting that this distinction is crucial for understanding cultural assimilation in psychology.
- Takasuna argues that various psychological programs reflect the social changes and modernization processes of different cultures, suggesting multiple levels of analysis to comprehend this evolution.
Article Abstract
Miki Takasuna's paper on "Proliferation of Western Methodological Thought in Psychology in Japan: Ways of Objectification" offers many significant clues for reconsidering the history and unity of psychology. Its treatment of the reception of psychology in Japan hints at the relevance of the models of the subject for psychology--including the allegedly "official" psychology. The aim of this paper is to suggest such reconsideration, on the basis of a distinction between psychology-importing and psychology-exporting countries, and provide a reflection on the cultural problems of assimilation by the latter of a discipline advanced by the former. This perspective leads us to acknowledge the existence of a variety of psychological programs corresponding to the transformation and modernization of different social realities. Also, an indication is offered of several possible levels of analysis of such programs, which are seen to be related with the emergence of psychology as the science of modernity.
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