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Cross-cultural Roots of Minority Child Development (Hardcover)
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Cross-cultural Roots of Minority Child Development (Hardcover)
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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.
Specific questions posed consider the extent to which:
* the development and socialization of minority children can be
seen as continuous with their ancestral cultures;
* the cultural and political conditions in the United States,
Canada, and France have modified developmental and socialization
processes, yielding discontinuities with ancestral cultures;
* the ancestral cultures have changed, yielding cross-generational
discontinuities in the development and socialization of immigrants
from the very same countries.
* the role of interdependence and independence in developmental
scripts can account for historical continuities and discontinuities
in development and socialization, both across and within cultures.
These questions not only provide the unifying theme of this unique
book but also a model for conceptualizing multi-culturalism within
a unified framework for developmental psychology.
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