Social and Cognitive Development in the Context of Individual, Social, and Cultural Processes

by Benson,Janette; Benson,Janette

• ISBN13: 9780415224475
• ISBN10: 0415224470
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134591329
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Recently, a proliferation of theoretical and empirical scholarship has emerged on how social and cultural factors shape development. This work has provided important information about the multiple goals and pathways of development throughout the world, yet many issues still remain open for continued analysis and refinement. This book addresses how individual, social and cultural factors intersect during development by bringing together an international group of scholars with diverse theoretical perspectives who conduct research in varied cultural contexts. The first section of the book focuses on how wider contexts of development are structured through interactions among individual, social and cultural processes. Specific chapters in this section focus on how the wider cultural context is constituted and enacted by individuals, including children and their caregivers, as they engage in social interactions. This section also includes analyses of how social contexts are dynamically constructed andnegotiated as children actively participate in concrete social interactions. The second section of the book focuses on how social interactions and cultural values shape specific aspects of development, including the development of object manipulation, future orientations and self-conceptions. The book ends with an integrative analysis of how infant experiences form the foundations of adult relational self-conceptions.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	viii
List of contributors	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction: an interactive approach to development	1	(10)
CATHERINE RAEFF AND JANETTE B. BENSON
PART I Contexts of development	11	(136)
1 Interaction and development: accounting for emergence	13	(22)
JAAN VALSINER
2 Patterns of culturally meaningful activity: linking parents' ideas and parent-child interactions	35	(19)
CATHERINE RAEFF
3 Environmental chaos, development and parenting across cultures	54	(30)
THEODORE D. WACHS AND FEYZA CORAPCI
4 Play as a context for the socialization of interpersonal relationships	84	(19)
M. CRISTINA RAMIREZ
5 Context and the dynamic construal of meaning in early childhood	103	(28)
NANCY BUDWIG
6 The multiple agendas of intersubjectivity in children's group writing activity	131	(16)
CHIKAKO TOMA AND JAMES V WERTSCH
PART II Developing through culturally shaped social interactions	147	(70)
7 Object manipulation in context	149	(19)
JEFFREY J. LOCKMAN
8 The social and cultural context of the development of future orientation	168	(23)
JANETTE B. BENSON, AYELET TALMI AND MARSHALL M. HAITH
9 Level this, Level that: the place of culture in the construction of the self	191	(26)
MICHAEL J. CHANDLER AND BRYAN W. SOKOL
PART III Some final thoughts: infancy as the foundation for intersecting individual, social, and cultural processes	217	(17)
10 Lessons from our infancy: relationships to self, other, and nature	219	(15)
ALAN FOGEL
Index	234