Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521371546 ISBN 13: 9780521371544

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

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?

About this title

Book Description:

Derived from the "Chicago Symposia on Culture and Human Development", this collection of essays by leading anthropologists, psychologists and linguists introduces cultural psychology as a way to study human development.

From the Back Cover:

This book raises the idea of a new discipline of cultural psychology, the study of the ways that psyche and cultural, subject and object, and person and world make up each other. Cultural Psychology is a collection of essays from leading scholars in anthropology, psychology, and linguistics who examine these relationships with special reference to core areas of human development.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0521371546
• ISBN 13: 9780521371544
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 637
• Editor: Stigler James W., Schweder Richard A., Herdt Gilbert