Cultural psychology
Subtitle: essays on comparative human development
By: edited by James W. Stigler, Richard A. Shweder, Gilbert Herdt.
Contributors: Stigler, James W.; Shweder, Richard A.; Herdt, Gilbert H., 1949-; University of Chicago. Committee on Human Development.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 625
Subjects: Ethnopsychology -- Congresses; Cognition and culture -- Congresses
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?"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.