Human behavior in global perspective : an introduction to cross-cultural psychology /
Saved in:
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
|---|---|
| Imprint: | Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1999. |
| Description: | xi, 399 p. : ill. ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | |
| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9271599 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. The Socio-Cultural Nature of Human Beings
- How to Comprehend Behavior and Culture
- The Centrality of Learning
- The Essence of Being Human
- Anthropological Perspectives on Culture
- Culture and Biology
- Race: Can This Tenacious Concept Be Supplanted?
- The Point of View of This Book
- The Scope of This Book
- 2. Cross-Cultural Research: Scope and Methods
- A Conceptual Framework for Cross-Cultural Psychology
- The Social and Cultural Context: Basic Concepts
- Cross-Cultural Psychology's Paradigm: A Balanced Approach
- An Antecedent of the Eco-Cultural Framework: The Culture and Personality School
- Methodology in Cross-Cultural Research: Some Problems and Some Solutions
- Conclusion
- 3. Human Development and Informal Education
- Why Study Developmental Psychology Cross-Culturally?
- The Developmental Niche
- Informal Education
- Adolescence, Life Span, and Old Age
- Conclusion
- 4. Perceptual and Cognitive Processes
- Perception and Visual Illusions
- Categorization
- Memory
- Problem Solving
- The Cognitive Consequences of Literacy and Schooling
- Experimental Anthropology
- Conclusion
- 5. Alternative Views on Human Competence: General Intelligence and Genetic Epistemology
- The Historical Legacy
- General Intelligence
- Deficiency versus Difference Interpretations of Cognitive achievement
- Genetic Epistemology
- Conclusion
- 6. Everyday Cognition and Cognitive Anthropology
- The Sociohistorical Approach: Piaget versus Vygotsky
- Ethnography of Daily Life
- Cognitive Anthropology or Ethnoscience
- Everyday Knowledge of Arithmetic
- Everyday Space and Geometry
- Transfer and Generalization
- Learning and Teaching Processes
- The Sociocultural Paradigm
- Conclusion
- 7. Motives, Beliefs, and Values
- Why Study Values Cross-Culturally?
- Culturally-Influenced Beliefs about Illness