{"product_id":"cross-cultural-roots-of-minority-child-development-9780805812244","title":"Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority Child Development","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Patricia M. Greenfield | Rodney R. Cocking\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Psychology Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Psychology Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book constitutes the first time in the field of developmental psychology that cross-cultural roots of minority child development have been studied in their ancestral societies in a systematic way--and by an international group of researchers. Most child development and child psychology texts take cultural diversity in development into account only as an addendum or as a special case--it is not integrated into a comprehensive theory or model of development. The purpose of this text is to redress this situation by enlisting insiders' and outsiders' perspectives on socialization and development in a diverse sampling of the world's cultures, including developing regions that often lack the means to speak for themselves in the arena of international social science. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The unique feature of this text is the paradigm. For the minority groups represented, the questions focused on how development was behaviorally expressed \u003ci\u003ewithin\u003c\/i\u003e the culture of origin and \u003ci\u003ein\u003c\/i\u003e new societal contexts. Thus, developmental issues--such as language and mother-child interactions--for African-American children are considered in the United States as well as in the African culture of origin and in France as a country of immigration. This paradigm is considered for African and Asian cultures and the Americas, including Hispanics from Mexico as well as Native Americans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Specific questions posed consider the extent to which: \u003cbr\u003e * the development and socialization of minority children can be seen as continuous with their ancestral cultures; \u003cbr\u003e * the cultural and political conditions in the United States, Canada, and France have modified developmental and socialization processes, yielding discontinuities with ancestral cultures; \u003cbr\u003e * the ancestral cultures have changed, yielding cross-generational discontinuities in the development and socialization of immigrants from the very same countries. \u003cbr\u003e * the role of interdependence and independence in developmental scripts can account for historical continuities and discontinuities in development and socialization, both across and within cultures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These questions not only provide the unifying theme of this unique book but also a model for conceptualizing multi-culturalism within a unified framework for developmental psychology.","brand":"Psychology Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46930516934807,"sku":"9780805812244","price":4436.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780805812244.webp?v=1771607437","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/cross-cultural-roots-of-minority-child-development-9780805812244","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}