| Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development Contributor(s): Stigler, James W. (Editor), Schweder, Richard A. (Editor), Herdt, Gilbert (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1139173723 ISBN-13: 9781139173728 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $494.00 Product Type: Open Ebook - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Dewey: 155.8 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of essays from leading scholars in anthropology, psychology, and linguistics is an outgrowth of the internationally known Chicago Symposia on Culture and Human Development. It raises the idea of a new discipline of cultural psychology through the study of the relationship between psyche and culture, subject and object, person and world, with special reference to core areas of human development: cognition, learning, self, personality dynamics, and gender. The essays critically examine such questions as: Is there an intrinsic psychic unity to humankind? Can cultural traditions transform the human psyche, resulting less in psychic unity than in ethnic divergences in mind, self, and emotion? Are psychological processes local or specific to the socio-cultural environments in which they are imbedded? |