Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Cigdem Kagitcibasi has long been at the forefront of research in developmental and cultural psychology, and is one of the world's most highly respected cross-cultural psychologists. This collection of essays has been produced in honor of Professor Kagitcibasi's retirement and to commemorate her contribution to the field. The volume examines social, developmental, and cultural psychology and intervention policies. A select group of international expert scholars explore those aspects of human behavior that are observed in all cultures, as well as those that are unique to each. They also examine changes in the family across socio-cultural contexts and generations in order to understand the factors precipitating these changes. Representing developments in theory and research in the field, this volume that will appeal to researchers and students of developmental and cross-cultural psychology across the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511847875
• Artikelnr.: 53003630

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Foreword M. Brewster Smith; Part I. Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology: Selected Perspectives: 1. Indigenization and beyond: the process and extent of psychology's growth as an international science John G. Adair; 2. The continuing quest for psychological universals in categories, dimensions, taxonomies, and patterns of human behavior Walt J. Lonner; 3. Circumnavigating the psychological globe: from yin and yang to starry, starry night Michael Harris Bond; 4. The emerging global psychology movement: lessons from Arab psychology Uwe P. Gielen; Part II. Development in the Family Context: 5. Organizing principles and processes from developmental science for culture and caregiving Marc H. Bornstein and Derya Güngör; 6. A social change and human development perspective on the value of children Gisela Trommsdorff; 7. Turkish family structure and functioning Bilge Ataca; 8. Mothers' and fathers' child rearing practices and self-esteem in three generations of urban Turkish families Diane Sunar; Part III. Culture and Self: 9. In search of the autonomous-relational self-construal Peter B. Smith; 10. Culture and developmental pathways of relationship formation Heidi Keller and Robin Harwood; 11. Microgenesis of narrative competence during preschool interactions: effects of the relational context Aylin C. Küntay; 12. Self-development, individuation, and culture: a psychoanalytic search Güler Okman Fi
ek; Part IV. Social Change, Family, and Gender: 13. One or two pathways to modernity? A systematic comparison of Kä
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's Model of Family Change and the Model of the Second Demographic Transition Bernhard Nauck; 14. Living together in culturally-plural societies: understanding and managing acculturation and multiculturalism John W. Berry; 15. Cultural continuity and discontinuity in Turkish migrant families: extending the Model of Family Change Karen Phalet and Derya Güngör; 16. Values and attitudes of young people in urban Turkey: a further test of Schwartz's theory of values and Kä
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's Model of Family Change Hale Bolak Boratav; 17. Career development of professional women in Turkey Zeynep Aycan; Part V. Induced Change: 18. Adapting intervention programs for use across societies: between valid transfer and cultural imposition Ype H. Poortinga; 19. Design of culturally-appropriate developmental interventions Nazli Baydar; 20. Designing, implementing, sustaining, and evaluating idiocultures for learning and development: the case study of the Fifth Dimension Michael Cole; 21. Intervention programs to improve cognitive skills Sami Gülgöz; 22. Pro-poor approaches to using technology for human development: monitoring and evaluation perspectives Daniel A. Wagner; Epilogue T. S. Saraswathi.