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Cross-cultural Roots of Minority Child Development

Cross-cultural Roots of Minority Child Development

Greenfield, Patricia M.
Cocking, Rodney R.

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General PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0805812237
ISBN13: 9780805812237
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: Jun 1 1994
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.99
Height: 1.32 Width: 5.96 Depth: 11.26
Language: English
This book constitutes the first time in the field of developmental psychology that cross-cultural roots of minority child development have been studied in their ancestral societies in a systematic way--and by an international group of researchers. Most child development and child psychology texts take cultural diversity in development into account only as an addendum or as a special case--it is not integrated into a comprehensive theory or model of development. The purpose of this text is to redress this situation by enlisting insiders' and outsiders' perspectives on socialization and development in a diverse sampling of the world's cultures, including developing regions that often lack the means to speak for themselves in the arena of international social science.

The unique feature of this text is the paradigm. For the minority groups represented, the questions focused on how development was behaviorally expressed within the culture of origin and in new societal contexts. Thus, developmental issues--such as language and mother-child interactions--for African-American children are considered in the United States as well as in the African culture of origin and in France as a country of immigration. This paradigm is considered for African and Asian cultures and the Americas, including Hispanics from Mexico as well as Native Americans.

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