Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative Human Development

ISBN 10: 0521378044 / ISBN 13: 9780521378048

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1990

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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?

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Cultural Psychology: Essays on Comparative ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good
Edition: 1st US - 1st Printing.