Culture, thought, and development / edited by Larry P. Nucci, Geoffrey B. Saxe, Elliot Turiel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nucci, Larry P.

Saxe, Geoffrey B.

Turiel, Elliot

Series:

Jean Piaget Symposium series

The Jean Piaget Symposium series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Social evolution.

Developmental psychology.

Physical Description:

xi, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000.

Summary:

This volume, which brings together eminent social scientists studying the interaction between culture, thought, and development, will be of interest to graduate students and scholars in cultural and developmental psychology, education, sociology and anth

Contents:

Part I Epistemological Issues

1. Would You Say Developmental Psychology Was a Science? The Cultural Paradigm of Mind / Joseph Margolis 3

2. The Central Role of Culture in Cognitive Evolution: A Reflection on the Myth of the "Isolated Mind" / Merlin Donald 19

Part II Personal, Social, and Affective Development

3. Emotions and Social Norms / Martha C. Nussbaum 41

4. Continuities of Selfhood in the Face of Radical Developmental and Cultural Change / Michael J. Chandler, Christopher E. Lalonde, Bryan W. Sokol 65

5. The Culture Concept and the Individualism

Collectivism Debate: Dominant and Alternative Attributions for Class in the United States / Claudia Strauss 85

6. The Moral and the Personal: Sources of Social Conflicts / Larry P. Nucci, Elliot Turiel 115

Part III The Development of Physical and Spatial Knowledge

7. Does the Mind Know the Difference Between the Physical and Social Worlds? / Andrea A. diSessa 141

8. Frames of Spatial Reference and Their Acquisition in Tenejapan Tzeltal / Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson 167

9. Where Do Children's Word Meanings Come From? Rethinking the Role of Cognition in Early Semantic Development / Melissa Bowerman 199

10. Culture and Universals: Integrating Social and Cognitive Development / Patricia M. Greenfield 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

080583009X

OCLC:

44131821