1st Edition

Family, Self, and Human Development Across Cultures Theory and Applications

By Cigdem Kagitcibasi Copyright 2017
504 Pages
by Routledge

504 Pages
by Routledge

504 Pages
by Routledge

Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı's influential volume was a work of masterful scholarship and field-defining thought that challenged the existing assumptions in mainstream western psychology about the nature of individuals. During the past two decades since its publication, cultural and cross-cultural research and theory on the self, family, and human development have expanded greatly, developing fruitfully... Read more

Introduction to the Classic Edition  1. Introduction  Part 1. Human Development, Self, and Family in Cultural Context  2. Development in Context  3. Socialization for Competence  4. Culture, Self, and Individualism-Collectivism  5. Value of Children and the Family  6. Parenting and the Development of the Autonomous-Related Self  Part 2. Implications for Social Issues and Applications  7. Induced Change: The Role of Psychology  8. Intervention: Early Enrichment  9. The Turkish Early Enrichment Project (TEEP)  10. Immigration and Acculturation  11. Search for Integration and Policy Implications

Biography

Çigdem Kağıtçıbaşı is Professor in the Department of Psychology at Koç University.

Praise for the previous edition: '…a tour de force of integration and synthesis, [this volume] is readable, informative, and accessible both to researchers in the field of cultural and cross-cultural psychology and to college and graduate students interested in a broader perspective regarding human development. … Kağıtçıbaşı has made a dramatic and valuable contribution to thinking about the individual, the family, and culture in both the Majority World and the West.' - PsycCRITIQUES