Travels in hyper-diversity: Multiculturalism and the contextual assessment of acculturation |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;2. Social Aetiology of Mental Illness (SAMI) Training Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;3. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;4. Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;1. Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;2. Social Aetiology of Mental Illness (SAMI) Training Program, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;3. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;4. Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;1. School of Health Sciences, Massey University, New Zealand;2. School of Health, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand;3. Budapest Business School, Hungary;4. Faculty of Education and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary;1. Queen''s University, Canada K7L 3N6;2. Sociocultural Psychology, Higher School of Economics, Russian National Research University, Moscow, Russia;1. International Islamic University Malaysia, Malaysia;2. National University of Singapore, Singapore;1. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand;2. University of Miami, United States;3. University of Texas at Austin, United States;4. Old Dominion University, United States;1. Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway;2. Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Norway;1. Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore;2. Beijing Normal University, 19 Xinjiekou Outer St, Haidian, Beijing 100875, China;3. Columbia University, 718 Uris Hall, 3022 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA;4. ICREA at Pompeu Fabra University, Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27, 08005 Barcelona, Spain |
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| Abstract: | We argue that current acculturation research offers an incomplete picture of the psychological changes taking place in contemporary multicultural societies. Several characteristics of the Canadian multicultural context highlight the limitations in current acculturation research: namely, themes of hyper-diversity, hybridity, dimensionality and the importance of local context. Canada is a case in point, but these themes are generalizable to other contemporary multicultural contexts. To address the limitations of the traditional psychological acculturation paradigm, we propose an innovative research approach to study acculturation: the Cultural Day Reconstruction Method (C-DRM). We report on two studies that implemented this diary method, to demonstrate that this research tool (1) addresses theoretical critiques of current acculturation research and (2) captures some of the complexity of acculturation in contemporary multicultural contexts. The C-DRM was constructed in response to the local research environment but we hope it will become part of a new generation of tools for the contextual assessment of acculturation. |
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| Keywords: | Multiculturalism Acculturation Methods Day Reconstruction Method Diary |
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