Adaptation in a dialogical perspective—From acculturation to proculturation

Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer Lado

doi:10.1177/1354067x18791977

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“…However, acculturation research has achieved huge popularity in crosscultural psychology. For the moment, Berry-inspired bidimensional models dominate mainstream acculturation study (Chirkov, 2009;Gamsakhurdia, 2018a;Rudmin, 2003) and Berry-inspired studies are oriented on identifying if people accept or reject heritage or host culture while being in emigration. G} ursoy and Kunt's (2018) study is just another example of it.…”

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“…Failing to reflect real-life experiences, while calculating only desires and attitudes of respondents (Chirkov, 2009;Doucerain et al, 2013;Waldram, 2009). 3. Disregarding interindividual variety among social groups while making overgeneralizing deductions (Gamsakhurdia, 2018a) 4. Oversimplification of the term of psychological adaptation, which has been defined as "feeling well" without exploring nature of meaning of human experiences.…”

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“…Mental elements or signs, such as identities or values, are understood as ontological entities which could be counted quantitatively. Ontologization of mental phenomena is widely criticized elsewhere (Chirkov, 2009;Gamsakhurdia, 2018a;M€ artsin, 2010a, 2010bM€ artsin & Mahmoud, 2012;Valsiner, 2017a).…”

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Proculturation: Self-reconstruction by making “fusion cocktails” of alien and familiar meanings

Gamsakhurdia

2019

Culture & Psychology

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This paper considers mental processes unfolding during humans’ movement in a foreign environment and aims to overcome theoretical discrepancies concerning culture and acculturation between sociocultural anthropology and cross-cultural psychology under the frame of cultural psychology. I propose to perceive culture as a multi-self-centered semiotic field, which is populated by signs and meanings, necessarily emphasizing its heterogeneity and incoherence. Cultures have hazy boundaries and are embedded into the wider web of meanings. In fact, there is one big global culture and all humans are involved in mediating it through intersubjective interactions. Further, the term proculturation is used to fill the gaps left by mainstream acculturation research, which has been mainly oriented on measuring ontologized trait-like characteristics in terms of bidimensional mechanic relationship between cultures and related correlations. Namely, proculturation specifically reflects real-life human experiences and the role of (inter)subjectivity in the process of adaptation in emigration or elsewhere in any unfamiliar environment. Most importantly proculturation implies triadic semiotic relations and the possibility of the creation of novel fusions of meanings, by mixing various ingredients in the process of mediation between familiar and unfamiliar ideas and experiences. Proculturation is catalytically conditioned by references to temporal dimensions and essentially is ever-continuing process.

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Proculturation: Self-reconstruction by making “fusion cocktails” of alien and familiar meanings

Gamsakhurdia

2019

Culture & Psychology

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“…The newest innovation in Culture & Psychology is the emerging theory of proculturation (Gamsakhurdia, 2018, 2019). It is an extension from the well-established discourses on acculturation which have been limited by the notion of adaptation to the given social system.…”

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“…Proculturation is a framework to look at moving beyond the demands of adaptation to the current social demands to focus on pre -adaptation for the potential futures (Gamsakhurdia, 2018). It starts from a basic developmental perspective—cultural conditions are re-constructed for living in new forms.…”

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Culture & Psychology: 25 Constructive years

Valsiner¹

2019

Culture & Psychology

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In this article, I review main directions in innovative ideas that have been presented on the pages of Culture & Psychology over its 25 year history. The field of cultural psychology has become established and gains increasing prominence over the years covered—yet its future depends on careful development of the specific theoretical ideas catalyzed by the use of the hyper-term culture in the different arenas of concrete human psychology. Potential future ideas for cultural psychology include a move from acculturation to proculturation, modulation of psychological distance by signs, building models of dialogical relationships in socially asymmetric role relations, and of the affective textures of everyday living. These are all processes of higher-order complexity that require new ways of conceptualizing methodology in psychology—one that prioritizes theoretically based methods construction over those of consensually established “tool boxes.” Cultural psychology has the advantage over other areas of psychology to consider both the real and not (yet) real human conditions within the same scheme, thus allowing for conceptualization of highest forms of human creativity in ordinary human lives.

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Overcoming the Binary Logic in Biculturalism

Murdock

2021

Culture as Process

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Adaptation in a dialogical perspective—From acculturation to proculturation

Cited by 46 publications

References 41 publications

Proculturation: Self-reconstruction by making “fusion cocktails” of alien and familiar meanings

Proculturation: Self-reconstruction by making “fusion cocktails” of alien and familiar meanings

Culture & Psychology: 25 Constructive years

Overcoming the Binary Logic in Biculturalism

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