Cultural Transmission: Psychological, Developmental, Social, and Methodological Aspects

by Edited by Ute Schönpflug

• ISBN13: 9780521706575
• ISBN10: 0521706572
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-10
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Cultural Transmission covers psychological, developmental, social, and methodological research on how cultural information is socially transmitted from one generation to the next within families. Studying processes of cultural transmission may help analyze the continuity or change of cultures, including those that have to cope with migration or the collapse of a political system. An evolutionary perspective is elaborated in the first part of the book; the second takes a cross-cultural perspective by presenting international research on development and intergenerational relations in the family; the third provides intra-cultural analyses of mechanisms and methodological aspects of cultural transmission. Made up of contributions by experts in the field, this state-of-the-art source book is intended for anyone with interests in cultural issues - especially researchers and teachers in disciplines such as psychology, social and behavioral sciences, and education - and for applied professionals in culture management and family counseling, as well as professionals dealing with migrants.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Contributors	p. xv
Introduction to Cultural Transmission: Psychological, Developmental, Social, and Methodological Aspects	p. 1
Theory and Research in Cultural Transmission: A Short History	p. 9
Evolutionary Perspective
Cultural Transmission: A View from Chimpanzees and Human Infants	p. 33
Transmission, Self-Organization, and the Emergence of Language: A Dynamic Systems Point of View	p. 48
Relationship-Specific Intergenerational Family Ties: An Evolutionary Approach to the Structure of Cultural Transmission	p. 70
Cross-Cultural Perspective
An Ecocultural Perspective on Cultural Transmission: The Family across Cultures	p. 95
Intergenerational Relations and Cultural Transmission	p. 126
Intergenerational Transmission, Social Capital, and Interethnic Contact in Immigrant Families	p. 161
Developmental Processes Related to Intergenerational Transmission of Culture: Growing Up with Two Cultures	p. 185
The Transmission Process: Mechanisms and Contexts	p. 212
Accounting for Parent-Child Value Congruence: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence	p. 240
Culture, Migration, and Family-Value Socialization: A Theoretical Model and Empirical Investigation with Russian-Immigrant Youth in Israel	p. 269
Immigrant Parents' Age Expectations for the Development of Their Adolescent Offspring: Transmission Effects and Changes after Immigration	p. 297
Intracultural Variations
Intergenerational Transmission of Moral Capital across the Family Life Course	p. 317
Similarity of Life Goals in the Family: A Three-Generation Study	p. 338
The Intergenerational Transmission of Xenophobia and Rightism in East Germany	p. 370
Intergenerational Transmission of Violence	p. 391
"Don't Trust Anyone over 25": Youth Centrism, Intergenerational Transmission of Political Orientations, and Cultural Change	p. 419
Value Transmission and Zeitgeist Revisited	p. 441
Epilogue: Toward a Model of Cultural Transmission	p. 460
Index	p. 479
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