ISBN:
9780805857764
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (494 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Family, Self, and Human Development Across Cultures : Theory and Applications, Second Edition
DDC:
306.85019
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Reflecting author Çigdem Kagitçibasi's influential work over the last two decades, this new edition examines human development, the self, and the family in a cultural context. It challenges the existing assumptions in mainstream western psychology about the nature of individuals. The author proposes a new model - the ""Autonomous-Related Self"" - which expands on existing theory by demonstrating how culture influences self development. The development of competence is examined from a contextual perspective, with a view towards global urbanization which is creating increasingly simila
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Foreword; Preface to the First Edition; A Personal Account; Interpersonal Relations; Social Relevance; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; About This Volume; Linking Self, Family, and Society; Linking Theory and Application; A Cultural and Cross-Cultural Perspective; The Culture Concept; Reconciling Assumed Opposites; The Growth of a Cross-Cultural Perspective; Benefits of the Cross-Cultural Perspective; Organization of the Book; Summary and Main Points; PART I: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, FAMILY, AND CULTURE
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 2 DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEXTContext as Meaning; Parental Warmth and Control as a Case in Point; Theoretical Perspectives on Context; Theoretical Advancement and Problem-Oriented Research; Contextual Theories in Cross-Cultural Developmental Psychology; The Value of a Contextual Functional Perspective; Features of Context; Societal Values Regarding Children; Global Social Change; Parental Goals, Beliefs, and Values; Social Class as Context; Effects of Growing Up in Poverty; Models Relating Development to Context; Summary and Main Points; CHAPTER 3 SOCIALIZATION FOR COMPETENCE; Socialization
Description / Table of Contents:
Everyday ""Teaching and Learning""Theoretical Conceptions of Cognitive Competence; The Cross-Cultural Background; Issues in Everyday Cognition; Cultural Conceptions of Cognitive Competence; A Social Definition of Competence; Changes in Lifestyles; Disadvantage for Cognitive Competence; Common Patterns and Mismatches; Adaptive Changes in Global Outlooks: Toward Convergence; Summary and Main Points; CHAPTER 4 CULTURE, SELF, AND INDIVIDUALISM-COLLECTIVISM; Culturally Varying Concept of Self; How Is Self Understood? Insights From the Last Few Decades; Historical Trends in the Study of Self
Description / Table of Contents:
Soul-Searching in American PsychologyCultural and Cross-Cultural Studies; Individualism-Collectivism (I-C); A Refinement: Normative and Relational I-C; Related Self-Separate Self; Independence-Interdependence; Correlates of I-C or Related-Separate Self in Psychological Functioning; Moral Thinking and Social Justice; Self-Enhancement; Cognition and Emotions; Control; Achievement; Summary and Main Points; CHAPTER 5 VALUE OF CHILDREN AND THE FAMILY; Modernization Theory on the Family; Challenges to Modernization Assumptions; Value of Children Study I (1970s); Values Attributed to Children
Description / Table of Contents:
A Theory of Family ChangeThe General Theoretical Framework; Model of Interdependence; Model of Independence; What Kind of Family Change?; Model of Psychological or Emotional Interdependence; Value of Children Study II (2000s); Further Support for the Family Change Theory and Model of Psychological/Emotional Interdependence; A Different Convergence?; Summary and Main Points; CHAPTER 6 PARENTING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AUTONOMOUS-RELATED SELF; Need for a Developmental Conceptualization; Key Questions; Parenting; Infancy and Attachment; Parenting the Child; The Adolescent-Parent Relation
Description / Table of Contents:
Autonomy and Relatedness as Basic Needs
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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