Lives Across Cultures: Cross-cultural Human Development

Lives Across Cultures: Cross-cultural Human Development
ISBN-10
0205191827
ISBN-13
9780205191826
Series
Lives Across Cultures
Category
Psychology / General
Pages
330
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Allyn and Bacon
Authors
Harry W. Gardiner, Corinne Kosmitzki, Jay D. Mutter

Description

This classic textbook brings a cross-cultural dimension to the study of human development across the lifespan. It focuses on major developmental topics and provides a global and multicultural perspective by introducing the reader to contemporary and classical research.*Utilizes a cross-cultural perspective to provide opportunities to expand awareness and sensitivity to global similarities and differences in human development thereby reducing ethnocentric thinking. *Emphasizes cultural-ecological and developmental contextual models that recognize bi-directional or reciprocal influences of individuals and their surrounding environments. Particular attention is given to Bronfenbrenners ecological systems approach and Supers and Harkness developmental niche concept. *Discusses chronological-within-topics issues. Cross-cultural research is organized chronologically to demonstrate how behavioral processes evolve and change as individuals in a variety of cultures pass from infancy and childhood through adolescence and into adulthood and old age. *Opens each chapter with vignettes of two individuals from different geographical areas of the world who illustrate one or more of the behaviors

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