Abstract

The study of culture has grown increasingly central to North American psychology over the past several decades as ethnocultural diversity has increased. Confusingly, however, this work is often published within isolated literatures: cross-cultural psychology; several flavors of ‘cultural psychology’; multicultural counselling; and ethnic minority psychology. Psychological anthropologists and transcultural psychiatrists also pose broadly similar questions. While these subdisciplines represent particular intellectual communities with particular histories, a major reason for continuing separation is methodology – in particular, the distinction between quantitative and qualitative methods (Ritsher, Ryder, Karasz, & Castille, 2002).