Kulturka

Appreciating diversity - cultural and gender issues

This book is present with the aim if concentrating on the variety of human existence In two aspects: culture and gender ? on human needs, relations and the values of they profess. People the whole world over are connected by some universal elements regardless of the culture they were born in and the society they live in. The beauty of human nature lies in the fact that it is still not entirely discovered. Of course, the individuals living in one culture or one society become similar to a certain extent as a result of the constant influence of social impact, for instance displaying a similar code of values, professing a certain religion. On the other hand, however, they remain individuals who make various choices and present different attitudes with their own history of life experience, with certain plans or goals in their lives. This is exactly what this book is about ? about the pancultural and cultural diversity of the human being, mainly considering gender as the leitmotif of the conducted analysis.

One should ask: how this diversity is perceived by psychology as science?

• author: Aneta Chybicka