The cultural nature of human development / Barbara Rogoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rogoff, Barbara.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialization.

Child development.

Cognition and culture.

Developmental psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 434 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [UK] ;a New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Cultural Nature of Human Development presents an account of human development that looks at the differences and similarities among cultures. Rogoff focuses on how culture matters in human development. The volume examines multiple aspects of development.

The Cultural Nature of Human Development presents an account of human development that looks at both the differences and similarities among cultures. Beyond demonstrating that 'culture matters', Rogoff focuses on how culture matters in human development - what patterns help make sense of the cultural aspects of human development? Rogoff integrates research and theory from several disciplines, including cross-cultural psychology, sociocultural research, linguistic and psychological anthropology, and history. The volume examines multiple aspects of development, including childrearing, gender differences, interdependence and autonomy, developmental transitions, maternal attachment, parental discipline, and cognition and culture.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

1 Orienting Concepts and Ways of Understanding the Cultural Nature of Human Development

Looking for Cultural Regularities

One Set of Patterns: Children's Age-Grading and Segregation from Community Endeavors or Participation in Mature Activities

Other Patterns

Orienting Concepts for Understanding Cultural Processes

Moving Beyond Initial Assumptions

Beyond Ethnocentrism and Deficit Models

Separating Value Judgments from Explanations

Diverse Goals of Development

Ideas of Linear Cultural Evolution

Moving Beyond Assumptions of a Single Goal of Human Development

Learning through Insider/Outsider Communication

Outsiders' Position

Insiders' Position

Moving between Local and Global Understandings

Revising Understanding in Derived Etic Approaches

The Meaning of the "Same" Situation across Communities

2 Development as Transformation of Participation in Cultural Activities

A Logical Puzzle for Researchers

An Example: "We always speak only of what we see

Researchers Questioning Assumptions

Concepts Relating Cultural and Individual Development

Whiting and Whiting's Psycho-Cultural Model

Bronfenbrenner's Ecological System

Descendents

Issues in Diagramming the Relation of Individual and Cultural Processes

Sociocultural-Historical Theory

Development as Transformation of Participation in Sociocultural Activity

3 Individuals, Generations, and Dynamic Cultural Communities

Humans Are Biologically Cultural

Prepared Learning by Infants and Young Children

Where Do Gender Differences Come From?

Participation in Dynamic Cultural Communities

Culture as a Categorical Property of Individuals versus a Process of Participation in Dynamically Related Cultural Communities

The Case of Middle-Class European American Cultural Communities.

Conceiving of Communities across Generations

4 Child Rearing in Families and Communities

Family Composition and Governments

Cultural Strategies for Child Survival and Care

Infant-Caregiver Attachment

Maternal Attachment under Severe Conditions

Infants' Security of Attachment

Attachment to Whom?

Family and Community Role Specializations

Extended Families

Differentiation of Caregiving, Companion, and Socializing Roles

Sibling Caregiving and Peer Relations

The Community as Caregiver

Children's Participation in or Segregation from Mature Community Activities

Access to Mature Community Activities

Pitching in" from Early Childhood

Excluding Children and Youth from Labor-and from Productive Roles

Adults "Preparing" Children or Children Joining Adults

Engaging in Groups or Dyads

Infant Orientation: Face-to-Face with Caregiver versus Oriented to the Group

Dyadic versus Group Prototypes for Social Relations

Dyadic versus Multiparty Group Relations in Schooling

5 Developmental Transitions in Individuals' Roles in Their Communities

Age as a Cultural Metric for Development

Developmental Transitions Marking Change in Relation to the Community

Rates of Passing Developmental "Milestones

Age Timing of Learning

Mental Testing

Development as a Racetrack

According Infants a Unique Social Status

Contrasting Treatment of Toddlers and Older Siblings

Continuities and Discontinuities across Early Childhood

Responsible Roles in Childhood

Onset of Responsibility at Age 5 to 7?

Maturation and Experience

Adolescence as a Special Stage

Initiation to Manhood and Womanhood

Marriage and Parenthood as Markers of Adulthood

Midlife in Relation to Maturation of the Next Generation

Gender Roles.

The Centrality of Child Rearing and Household Work in Gender Role Specializations

Sociohistorical Changes over Millennia in Mothers' and Fathers' Roles

Sociohistorical Changes in Recent Centuries in U.S. Mothers' and Fathers' Roles

Occupational Roles and Power of Men and Women

Gender and Social Relations

6 Interdependence and Autonomy

Sleeping "Independently

Comfort from Bedtime Routines and Objects

Social Relations in Cosleeping

Independence versus Interdependence with Autonomy

Individual Freedom of Choice in an Interdependent System

Learning to Cooperate, with Freedom of Choice

Adult-Child Cooperation and Control

Parental Discipline

Teachers' Discipline

Teasing and Shaming as Indirect Forms of Social Control

Conceptions of Moral Relations

Moral Reasoning

Morality as Individual Rights or Harmonious Social Order

Learning the Local Moral Order

Mandatory and Discretionary Concepts in Moral Codes

Cooperation and Competition

Cooperative versus Competitive Behavior in Games

Schooling and Competition

7 Thinking with the Tools and Institutions of Culture

Specific Contexts Rather Than General Ability: Piaget around the World

Schooling Practices in Cognitive Tests: Classification and Memory

Classification

Memory

Cultural Values of Intelligence and Maturity

Familiarity with the Interpersonal Relations used in Tests

Varying Definitions of Intelligence and Maturity

Generalizing Experience from One Situation to Another

Learning to Fit Approaches Flexibly to Circumstances

Cultural Tools for Thinking

Literacy

Mathematics

Other Conceptual Systems

Distributed Cognition in the Use of Cultural Tools for Thinking

Cognition beyond the Skull

Collaboration in Thinking across Time and Space.

Collaboration Hidden in the Design of Cognitive Tools and Procedures

An Example: Sociocultural Development in Writing Technologies and Techniques

Crediting the Cultural Tools and Practices We Think With

8 Learning through Guided Participation in Cultural Endeavors

Basic Processes of Guided Participation

Mutual Bridging of Meanings

Mutual Structuring of Participation

Distinctive Forms of Guided Participation

Academic Lessons in the Family

Talk or Taciturnity, Gesture, and Gaze

Intent Participation in Community Activities

9 Cultural Change and Relations among Communities

Living the Traditions of Multiple Communities

Conflict among Cultural Groups

Transformations through Cultural Contact across Human History

An Individual's Experience of Uprooting Culture Contact

Community Changes through Recent Cultural Contacts

Western Schooling as a Locus of Culture Change

Schooling as a Foreign Mission

Schooling as a Colonial Tool

Schooling as a Tool of U.S. Western Expansion

The Persistence of Traditional Ways in Changing Cultural Systems

Contrasting Ideas of Life Success

Intervention in Cultural Organization of Community Life

Dynamic Cultural Processes: Building on More Than One Way

Learning New Ways and Keeping Cultural Traditions in Communities Where Schooling Has Not Been Prevalent

Immigrant Families Borrowing New Practices to Build on Cultural Traditions

Learning New Ways and Keeping Cultural Traditions in Communities Where Schooling Has Been Central

Cultural Variety as an Opportunity for Learning-for Individuals and Communities

The Creative Process of Learning from Cultural Variation

A Few Regularities

Concluding with a Return to the Orienting Concepts

References

Credits

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-411) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-981362-0

1-280-47268-5

0-19-972666-3

0-19-530224-9

OCLC:

60543111