The Society for Descriptive Psychology www.sdp.org A MULTICULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY

The problem of doing justice to both uniformities and differences with respect to the structural aspects of behavior is addressed. The implications of the Significance parameter of behavior are developed in the form of a conceptual framework for a multicultural psychology. Problems of delineating and differentiating cultural perspectives in nonethnocentric ways are addressed. The exemplification of cultural perspectives in scientific methodology is touched upon. Problems of uniformity and multiplicity have been with us since before the days of ancient Greece, and there is no reason to suppose that we will shortly have outlived or outlasted them. Thus, an essential constituent of our scientific apparatus consists of conceptual and technical ways of dealing with these issues. From a formal standpoint, a major resource for doing so is the use of Paradigm Case Formulations, Parametric Analyses, and Calculational Systems (Ossorio, 198la). These conceptual-notational forms also serve to introduce psychological subject matter in a nonreductive way. With such devices we have dealt with the issues of uniformity and multiplicity in