ABSTRACT
This volume is concerned with elucidating similarities and differences in enculturation processes that help to account for the ways in which individuals in different cultures develop. Each chapter reviews a substantive parenting topic, describes the relevant cultures (in psychological ethnography, rather than from an anthropological stance), reports on the parenting-in-culture results, and discusses the significance of cross-cultural investigation for understanding the parenting issue of interest. Specific areas of study include environment and interactive style, responsiveness, activity patterns, distributions of social involvement with children, structural patterns of interaction, and development of the social self. Through exposure to a wide range of diverse research methods, readers will gain a deeper appreciation of the problems, procedures, possibilities, and profits associated with a truly comparative approach to understanding human growth and development.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |19 pages
Introduction
part |100 pages
Conceptions
chapter |22 pages
Innate and Cultural Guidance of Infants' Integrative Competencies
chapter |24 pages
Child–Rearing Practices and Parental Beliefs in Three Cultural Groups of Montréal
part |73 pages
Consequences