Developing cultures
Subtitle: essays on cultural change
By: edited by Lawrence Harrison and Jerome Kagan.
Contributors: Harrison, Lawrence E.; Kagan, Jerome.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Progress.; Social values.; Social change.; Culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Lawrence Harrison; title: Child rearing; title: Culture, values, and the family / Jerome Kagan; title: Parenting practices and governance in Latin America: the case of Costa Rica / Luis Diego Herrera; title: Education; title: Cultural values and parenting education / Sharon Lynn Kagan and Amy Lowenstein; title: Character education: restoring virtue to the mission of the schools / Thomas Lickona; title: Civic education and the development of civic knowledge and attitudes / Richard Niemi and Steven Finkel; title: Schooling open societies in Latin America / Fernando Reimers and Eleonora Villegas-Reimers; title: Religion; title: Evangelical expansion and 'progressive values' in the developing world / David Martin; title: Anglo-Protestant culture / Samuel Huntington; title: The development of the Jews / Jim Lederman; title: Culture begins with cult: the surprising growth of the Catholic people / Michael Novak; title: Re-imagining the Orthodox tradition: nurturing democratic values in Orthodox Christian civilization / Nikolas Gvosdev, with a response by Georges Prevelakis; title: Market development, political change, and Chinese cultures / Robert Weller; title: Buddhist economics in Asia / Christal Whelan; title: Cultural change in Islamic civilization / Bassam Tibi; title: Islam matters: culture and progress in the Muslim world / Robert Hefner; title: Hinduism and modernity / Pratap Bhanu Mehta; title: The media; title: Journalism and values / Mariano Grondona and Carlos Alberto Montaner; title: The global battle for cultural domination / Reese Schonfeld; title: Leadership; title: Public policy and culture / Richard Lamm; title: Development projects; title: Donor projects and culture change: the case of Costa Rica / James Fox; title: Can social capital be constructed? Decentralization and social capital formation in Latin America / Mitchell Seligson.