Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture

by Bekman, Sevda

• ISBN13: 9781107406452
• ISBN10: 1107406455
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-01
• Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

Cigdem Kagitçibasi 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, first published in 2009, has been produced in honor of Professor Kagitçibasi'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.

Table of Contents

Preface

Foreword

Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology: Selected Perspectives

Indigenization and beyond: the process and extent of psychology's growth as an international science

The continuing quest for psychological universals in categories, dimensions, taxonomies, and patterns of human behavior

Circumnavigating the psychological globe: from yin and yang to starry, starry night

The emerging global psychology movement: lessons from Arab psychology

Development in the Family Context

Organizing principles and processes from developmental science for culture and caregiving

A social change and human development perspective on the value of children

Turkish family structure and functioning

Mothers' and fathers' child rearing practices and self-esteem in three generations of urban Turkish families

Culture and Self

In search of the autonomous-relational self-construal

Culture and developmental pathways of relationship formation

Microgenesis of narrative competence during preschool interactions: effects of the relational context

Self-development, individuation, and culture: a psychoanalytic search

Social Change, Family, and Gender

One or two pathways to modernity? A systematic comparison of Kagitçibasi's Model of Family Change and the Model of the Second Demographic Transition

Living together in culturally-plural societies: understanding and managing acculturation and multiculturalism

Cultural continuity and discontinuity in Turkish migrant families: extending the Model of Family Change

Values and attitudes of young people in urban Turkey: a further test of Schwartz's theory of values and Kagitçibasi's Model of Family Change Hale

Career development of professional women in Turkey

Induced Change

Adapting intervention programs for use across societies: between valid transfer and cultural imposition

Design of culturally-appropriate developmental interventions

Designing, implementing, sustaining, and evaluating idiocultures for learning and development: the case study of the Fifth Dimension

Intervention programs to improve cognitive skills

Pro-poor approaches to using technology for human development: monitoring and evaluation perspectives

Epilogue

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