M.A. (Psychology) Cultural Psychology Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
Semesters III and IV are from the Board's own Semester III and IV syllabus approved on 12 July 2024 (item 5.7 (N)), in force from 2024-25. The 2023 document's credit table shows an earlier plan for Semesters III and IV; the 2024 syllabus is the one the University examines, and its Winter 2026 timetables name these papers.
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Syllabus for Cultural Psychology
Course objectives
- 1 To provide an introduction to culture and psychology
- 2 To understand the relationship between culture, self, identity, personality and gender
- 3 To understand the role of culture in cognition, emotion, and communication
- 4 To develop understanding of culture and social behaviour and health
Course outcomes
- CO1 Understand culture and various psychological phenomenon.
- CO2 Describe and compare various psychological phenomenon across cultures and explain the reasoning.
- CO3 Evaluate the findings of cross cultural research in various areas of psychology.
- CO4 Conceptualize cultural research in Indian context.
Unit I: An Introduction to Culture and Psychology
- A Culture and Psychology: Culture, Contents of Culture, culture and Psychology. Anthropological and evolutionary foundations of cultural psychology. Cultural evolution. Etic and Emic Approaches to Culture.
- B Cross-Cultural Research Methods: Types and designing cross-cultural comparison, Biases and equivalence, validation and indigenous studies.
- C Enculturation: Cultural learnings, parenting and families, Peers, Educational systems.
- D Culture and Development: Temperament, attachment, Cognitive development, moral reasoning.
- E Culturally relevant Theorizations: Hofstead’s Cultural dimensions, Honor cultures, WVS, Kluckholn, Trompenaars, Lewis Models, WEIRD cultures.
Unit II: Culture, Self, Identity, Personality and Gender
- A Culture, Self, and Identity: Self, self-esteem, self-enhancement, and Identity.
- B Culture and Personality: FFM, beyond FFM,
- C Culture and Indigenous Personality: Indigenous Personalities, Integrating Universal and Culture- Specific understanding
- D Culture and Gender: Sex and Gender, Gender Variations, Gender Roles, and Gender Stereotypes and changes.
Unit III: Culture and Cognition, Emotion, and Communication
- A Culture and Emotion: Cultural Regulation of Basic Emotions, Emotional Experience, Concepts, Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs.
- B Culture and Cognition: Culture and Perception, Analytic vs. Holistic Cognition, Math, Time perception, Intelligence.
- C Culture and Communication: Cultural Influences on Verbal and non-verbal Language, Bi- and Multilingualism and Culture, Intracultural (Interpersonal) and Intercultural Communication
- D Culture and Motivation: Self-Enhancement and Self-Esteem, Control, Group agency.
Unit IV: Culture and Social Behaviour and Indian Culture
- A Culture and Social Behavior: Mate Selection, Love, and Marriage across Cultures; Culture and Social Influence Culture and Intergroup Relations; Culture and Aggression
- B Morality, Religion, and Justice
- C Indian Culture and Psychology
- D Empirical findings about cultural research in India: Social psychology, Personality, Mental Health.
References
- 1 Heine, S. J. (2019). Cultural Psychology. W. W. Norton & Company. London.
- 2 Kitayama, C. (2007). Handbook Of Cultural Psychology. The Guilford Press. New York.
- 3 Matsumoto, D., Juang, L., & Hwang, H.C. (2022). Culture and Psychology. 7 th edi. Cengage Learning. Boston.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for M.A. (Psychology), Semester III and IV, AC 12/07/2024, Item No. 5.7 (N), in force from the academic year 2024-25. Wording and numbering are as printed there; the marks scheme is in the PDF above.
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