Cultural transmission : psychological, developmental, social, and methodological aspects / edited by Ute Schönpflug.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schönpflug, Ute, 1940-

Series:

Culture and psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialization.

Ethnopsychology.

Cognition and culture.

Learning--Social aspects.

Learning.

Learning, Psychology of.

Physical Description:

xix, 490 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Cultural Transmission discusses psychological, developmental, social, and methodological research on how cultural information is socially transmitted from one generation to the next within families. Studying processes of cultural transmission may help analyze the continuity or change of cultures, including those that have to cope with migration or the collapse of a political system. An evolutionary perspective is elaborated in the first part of the book; the second part takes a cross-cultural perspective by presenting international research on development and intergenerational relations in the family; and the third part provides intracultural analyses of mechanisms and methodological aspects of cultural transmission. Consisting of contributions by experts in the field, this state-of-the-art source book is intended for anyone with interests in cultural maintenance and change - especially researchers and teachers in disciplines such as psychology, social and behavioral sciences, and education - and for applied professionals in culture management and family counseling, as well as professionals involved with migrants.

Contents:

Introduction to cultural transmission : psychological, developmental, social, and methodological aspects

Theory and research in cultural transmission : a short history / Ute Schönpflug

Evolutionary perspective

Cultural transmission : a view from chimpanzees and human infants / Michael Tomasello

Transmission, self-organization, and the emergence of language : a dynamic systems point of view / Paul van Geert

Relationship-specific intergenerational family ties : an evolutionary approach to the structure of cultural transmission / Harald A. Euler, Sabine Hoier, and Percy A. Rohde

Cross-cultural perspective

An ecocultural perspective on cultural transmission : the family across cultures / John W. Berry and James Georgas

Intergenerational relations and cultural transmission / Gisela Trommsdorff

Intergenerational transmission, social capital, and interethnic contact in immigrant families / Bernhard Nauck

Developmental processes related to intergenerational transmission of culture : growing up with two cultures / Amado M. Padilla

The transmission process : mechanisms and contexts / Ute Schönpflug and Ludwig Bilz

Accounting for parent-child value congruence : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence / Ariel Knafo and Shalom H. Schwartz

Culture, migration, and family value socialization : a theoretical model and empirical investigation with Russian-immigrant youth in Israel / Ariel Knafo ... [et al.]

Immigrant parents' age expectations for the development of their adolescent offspring : transmission effects and changes after immigration / Eva Schmitt-Rodermund and Rainer K. Silberseisen

Intracultural variations

Intergenerational transmission of moral capital across the family life course / Merril Silverstein and Stephen J. Conroy

Similarity of life goals in the family : a three-generations study / Alexander Grob, Wibke Weisheit, and Veronica Gomez

The intergenerational transmission of xenophobia and rightism in East Germany / Bernd Six, Kristina Geppert, and Ute Schönpflug

Intergenerational transmission of violence / Haci-Halil Uslucan and Urs Fuhrer

"Don't trust anyone over 25" : youth centrism, intergenerational transmission of political orientations, and cultural change / Tom F.M. ter Bogt ... [et al.]

Value transmission and zeitgeist revisited / Klaus Boehnke, Andreas Hadjar, and Dirk Baier

Epilogue: Towards a model of cultural transmission / Ute Schönpflug.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521880435

0521880432

9780521706575

0521706572

OCLC:

231580970