APA Dictionary of Psychology

cultural turn

Updated on 04/19/2018
  1. a general trend toward considering culture when analyzing and framing psychological, educational, sociological, political, and other issues.
  2. a movement within postmodernism that gained traction among social science scholars and historians in the 1970s, in which culture was considered when analyzing behavior and events.
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