Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 2/26/2009
EAN 9780521876728, ISBN10: 0521876729

Hardcover, 430 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Language: English

Çiğdem Kağitçibaşi 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 Kağitçibaşi'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.

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 Fişek
Part IV. Social Change, Family, and Gender
13. One or two pathways to modernity? A systematic comparison of Kağıtçıbaşı'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 Kağıtçıbaşı'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.