Methodological and theoretical issues on psychological traditionality and modernity research in an Asian society: In response to Kwang-Kuo Hwang and beyond

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 263-285

  Yang, Kuo Shu ^a,b  

^a FO GUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hypothesis of limited psychological convergence; Individual modernity; Individual traditionality; Psychological modernization; Traditionality modernity discontinuity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344552320     PISSN: 13672223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-839X.2003.00126.x     Document Type: Review

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