The Cultural Characteristics Of Psychology

"What is psychology?"This is an academic issue in psychological field. People who have different academic standpoint and knowledgeable background have various understanding and opinions about it. The answer to this issue will be connected with some important problems faced by psychologists. Moreover, how to understand and reply to this issue is associated with the existence and future development as well as the characteristics of psychology.All scholars have formed their own opinions about how to understand psychology. Either natural science or humane science, either frontier science or unconfirmed science cannot avoid the marked imprint of the times and the limits because of some psychologists'different times, academic prospective and knowledgeable background, which means the opinions above cannot have a full and deep understanding about psychology. Therefore, psychology should be reconsidered as a subject from the viewpoint of psychology. Thus, the proposition—the cultural characteristics of psychology is attempting to have a particular and new view about psychology.First this paper begins with the definition of culture, and then raises the proposition"psychology is a kind of culture on the basis of culture. From the cultural point, this paper makes a cultural analysis and criticism about natural scientific characteristics of psychology, which is provided with naturalism,...