Parental ethnotheories of child development looking beyond independence and individualism in American belief systems
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Tarih
2006
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Springer
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
Over the past several decades, the topic of child development in a
cultural context has received a great deal of theoretical and empirical
investigation. Investigators from the fields of indigenous and cultural
psychology have argued that childhood is socially and historically constructed, rather than a universal process with a standard sequence of
developmental stages or descriptions. As a result, many psychologists
have become doubtful that any stage theory of cognitive or socialemotional development can be found to be valid for all times and places.
In placing more theoretical emphasis on contextual processes, they define
culture as a complex system of common symbolic action patterns (or
scripts) built up through everyday human social interaction by means of
which individuals create common meanings and in terms of which they
organize experience. Researchers understand culture to be organized and
coherent, but not homogenous or static, and realize that the complex
dynamic system of culture constantly undergoes transformation as participants (adults and children) negotiate and re-negotiate meanings
through social interaction. These negotiations and transactions give rise to
unceasing heterogeneity and variability in how different individuals and
groups of individuals interpret values and meanings.
Açıklama
International Workshop on Scientific Advances in Indigenous Psychologies - Philosophical, Cultural and Empirical Contributions -- OCT 29-NOV 01, 2001 -- Taipei, TAIWAN
Anahtar Kelimeler
American Belief Systems, Parental Ethnotheories, Individualism, Independence
Kaynak
Indigenous And Cultural Psychology: Understanding People In Context
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