The Oxford Handbook of Human Development and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Oxford Library of Psychology)
Language: English
Pages: 768
ISBN: 019061966X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The Oxford Handbook of Human Development and Culture provides a comprehensive synopsis of theory and research on human development, with every chapter drawing together findings from cultures around the world. This includes a focus on cultural diversity within nations, cultural change, and globalization. Expertly edited by Lene Arnett Jensen, the Handbook covers the entire lifespan from the prenatal period to old age. It delves deeply into topics such as the development of emotion, language, cognition, morality, creativity, and religion, as well as developmental contexts such as family, friends, civic institutions, school, media, and work. Written by an international group of eminent and cutting-edge experts, chapters showcase the burgeoning interdisciplinary approach to scholarship that bridges universal and cultural perspectives on human development. This "cultural-developmental approach" is a multifaceted, flexible, and dynamic way to conceptualize theory and research that is in step with the cultural and global realities of human development in the 21st century.
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Humans. This traditional account of attachment, once unrivaled, receives less support than it once did. We better understand now the ecological circumstances associated with the evolution of attachment and the contextual dependency of attachment relationships. Researchers whose views on attachment reflect these developments accept attachment as an evolved behavioral system and acknowledge important similarities in attachment worldwide (e.g., qualities of care and caregiver are important to the.
Limits around curfew, values around respectful behavior toward others, expectations for doing homework, and much more. If parental authority is undermined, if the parent’s voice of authority loses meaning, and if the children lose respect for their parents, the very foundation of safety and family coherence is compromised. Many parents thus come to face the paradox of parenting in a promised land. The country offers them the dream of a better tomorrow and provides them with the opportunity to.
Does a poor, illiterate, Muslim man, father of five offspring living in a village in the South of India share with an affluent, highly educated, multilingual Hindi couple with no children in Mumbai? But even in countries with relatively small populations, such as Sweden or Canada, dramatic demographic changes over the past 30 years are causing seismic shocks to once bedrock notions of what it means to be “Swedish” or “Canadian.” The notion that culture can be easily equated to nationality—an idea.
More broadly. “When between 80 and 90 days old,” Darwin wrote of his son, for example, “he drew all sorts of objects into his mouth, and in two or three weeks’ time could do this with some skill; but he often first touched his nose with the object and then dragged it down into his mouth” (Darwin, 1877, p. 1). This “natural history” approach to human development was specifically promoted in the late 19th century by G. Stanly Hall (1893, p. 283), widely regarded as the founder of developmental.