Affiliation:
1. Wake Forest University
Abstract
Developmental psychology has been concerned with the role of culture since the beginnings of the discipline, and current views reflect universalistic, context-specific, and cultural practices conceptions of culture. Given the value of cross-cultural research for theories of development, an extensive content analysis of cross-cultural themes and research in selected developmental textbooks, handbooks, and reviews is reported in the present study. Cross-cultural entries have increased across the almost 40 years represented by these books and have shifted from more anthropological presentations to more comparative examinations. Although textbook discussions have lagged behind the professional literature, they have increased substantially in the early 1990s. By including more cross-cultural themes and research in texts, a more complete understanding of development is fostered.
Subject
Anthropology,Cultural Studies,Social Psychology
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