Children of Six Cultures

Children of Six Cultures
Author: Beatrice Blyth Whiting
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1975
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

The study involved children in Taira, located on the northeast coast of Okinawa; Tarong, located in the northwest corner of the island of Luzon in the Philippines; Khalapur, a village in northern India; the Nyanongo people of western Kenya; Mixtecan-speaking Indians residing in Juxtlahuaca in the Mexican state of Oaxaca; and Orchard Town, a New England town founded by Baptists.

Children of Six Cultures

Children of Six Cultures
Author: Beatrice Blyth Whiting
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1975
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780674116481

The study involved children in Taira, located on the northeast coast of Okinawa; Tarong, located in the northwest corner of the island of Luzon in the Philippines; Khalapur, a village in northern India; the Nyanongo people of western Kenya; Mixtecan-speaking Indians residing in Juxtlahuaca in the Mexican state of Oaxaca; and Orchard Town, a New England town founded by Baptists.

Children of Different Worlds

Children of Different Worlds
Author: Beatrice Blyth Whiting
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1988
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780674116177

The culmination of twenty years of research, this book is a cross-cultural exploration of the ways in which age, gender, and culture affect the development of social behavior in children. The authors and their associates observed children between the ages of two and ten going about their daily lives in communities in Africa, India, the Philippines, Okinawa, Mexico, and the United States. This rich fund of data has enabled them to identify the types of social behavior that are universal and those which differ from one cultural environment to another. Whiting and Edwards shed new light on the nature-nurture question: in analyzing the behavior of young children, they focus on the relative contributions of universal physiological maturation and universal social imperatives. They point out cross-cultural similarities, but also note the differences in experience between children who grow up in simple and in complex societies. They show that knowledge of the company children keep, and of the proportion of time they spend with various categories of people, makes it possible to predict important aspects of their interpersonal behavior. An extension and elaboration of the classic Children of Six Cultures (Harvard, 1975), Children of Different Worlds will appeal to the same audience--developmental psychologists, social psychologists, anthropologists, and educators--and is sure to be equally influential.

The Making of Psychological Anthropology

The Making of Psychological Anthropology
Author: George D. Spindler
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2023-11-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520312821

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

The Cambridge Handbook of Environment in Human Development

The Cambridge Handbook of Environment in Human Development
Author: Linda Mayes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 741
Release: 2012-08-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1139536168

Families, communities and societies influence children's learning and development in many ways. This is the first handbook devoted to the understanding of the nature of environments in child development. Utilizing Urie Bronfenbrenner's idea of embedded environments, this volume looks at environments from the immediate environment of the family (including fathers, siblings, grandparents and day-care personnel) to the larger environment including schools, neighborhoods, geographic regions, countries and cultures. Understanding these embedded environments and the ways in which they interact is necessary to understand development.

Sibling Relationships

Sibling Relationships
Author: M. E. Lamb
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317769589

First published in 1982. Since the emergence of developmental psychology early this century, theorists and researchers have emphasized the family’s role in shaping the child’s emergent social style, personality, and cognitive competence. In so doing, however, psychologists have implicitly adopted a fairly idiosyncratic definition of the family— one that focuses almost exclusively on parents and mostly on mothers. The realization that most families contain two parents and at least two children has occurred slowly, and has brought with it recognition that children develop in the context of a diverse network of social relationships within which each person may affect every other both directly (through their interactions) and indirectly (i.e., through A ’s effect on B, who in turn influences C). The family is such a social network, itself embedded in a broader network of relations with neighbors, relatives, and social institutions. Within the family, relationships among siblings have received little attention until fairly recently. In this volume, the goal is to review the existing empirical and theoretical literature concerning the nature and importance of sibling relationships.

Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 7

Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology, Volume 7
Author: Michele J. Gelfand
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2018
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 019087922X

With applications throughout the social sciences, culture and psychology is a rapidly growing field that has experienced a surge in publications over the last decade. From this proliferation of books, chapters, and journal articles, exciting developments have emerged in the relationship of culture to cognitive processes, human development, psychopathology, social behavior, organizational behavior, neuroscience, language, marketing, and other topics. In recognition of this exponential growth, Advances in Culture and Psychology is the first annual series to offer state-of-the-art reviews of scholarly research in the growing field of culture and psychology. The Advances in Culture and Psychology series is: * Developing an intellectual home for culture and psychology research programs * Fostering bridges and connections among cultural scholars from across the discipline * Creating a premier outlet for culture and psychology research * Publishing articles that reflect the theoretical, methodological, and epistemological diversity in the study of culture and psychology * Enhancing the collective identity of the culture and psychology field Comprising chapters from internationally renowned culture scholars and representing diversity in the theory and study of culture within psychology, Advances in Culture and Psychology is an ideal resource for research programs and academics throughout the psychology community.