Japanese frames of mind
Subtitle: cultural perspectives on human development
By: edited by Hidetada Shimizu, Robert A. LeVine
Contributors: Shimizu, Hidetada, 1960-; LeVine, Robert Alan, 1932-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Psychology -- Japan
Description: By placing the Japanese evidence within the context of Western psychological theory and research, this text calls for a systematic reexamination of Western psychology as one psychology among many other ethnopsychologies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Japanese cultural psychology and empathic understanding: implications for academic and cultural psychology / Hidetada Shimizu; title: Moral scripts: a U.S.-Japan comparison / Hiroshi Azuma; title: Moral reasoning among adults: Japan-U.S. comparison / Nobumichi Iwasa; title: The maternal role in Japan: cultural values and socioeconomic conditions / Yoshie Nishioka Rice; title: Japanese mother-child relationships: skill acquisition before the preschool years / Shusuke Kobayashi; title: Learning to become part of the group: the Japanese child's transition to preschool life / Lois Peak; title: Peer culture and interaction: how Japanese children express their internalization of the cultural norms of group life (shudan seikatsu) / Victoria E. Kelly; title: Beyond individualism and sociocentrism: an ontological analysis of the opposing elements in personal experiences of Japanese adolescents / Hidetada Shimizu; title: Returnees to Japan: the impact of having lived in the United States / Miya Omori; title: Children and families: reflections on the "crisis" in Japanese childrearing today / Merry I. White