Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 705 g
New Syntheses in Theory, Research, and Policy
Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 705 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-538343-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
This cutting-edge book brings together eminent experts who propose ways to bridge cultural and developmental approaches to human psychology. The experts heed the call of cultural psychology to study different peoples around the world and to recognize that culture profoundly impacts how we think, feel, and act. At the same time, they also take seriously the developmental science perspective that humans everywhere share common life stage tasks and ways of learning.
Doing what has not previously been done, the experts integrate key insights and findings from cultural and developmental research. The result is a book brimming with new and creative syntheses for theory, research, and policy.
This book is in step with a world where culturally diverse peoples interact with one another more than ever due to migration, worldwide media, and international trade and travel. With these interactions come changes to cultures and the psychological development of their members, and the implications for scholarship and policy are thoughtfully examined here.
The book covers a wide range of related topics. It addresses the intersection of development and culture for psychological processes such as learning and memory, for key contexts of development such as family and civil society, for conceptions of self and identity, and for how the life course is partitioned including a focus on childhood and emerging adulthood.
With its inclusion of diverse life phases, diverse topics, and experts from diverse disciplines and cultures, this volume speaks to a broad range of developmental and cultural issues. The synthesis of cultural and developmental approaches should be exciting and eye-opening to anyone with an interest in human psychology in today's global world.
Zielgruppe
The book is salient to a wide range of scholars, including scholars in developmental and cultural psychology, but also in other areas of psychology (such as clinical and social psychology) where attention to culture is increasing), anthropology, communication, education, linguistics, and social work. Some neuroscientists even do cultural work and might well find the synthesis between culture and universal developmental findings of relevance to their work. The book will be of interest to scholars across cultures, precisely because it addresses both cultural distinctiveness and developmental commonality. Approximately 60% of the authors are of non-American backgrounds. The authors come from every continent. The book is also be appropriate for a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses addressing developmental and cultural issues. It could be used as a main text, or as a reading companion to textbooks. In psychology and related fields, courses that address cultural issues are increasing notably in popularity.
