Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Foreword by Robert Sapolsky
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- SECTION ONE HISTORICAL, CROSS-CULTURAL, AND DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES
- 1 Plasticity and Variation: Cultural Influences on Parenting and Early Child Development Within and Across Populations
- 2 From Measurement to Meaning in Caregiving and Culture: Current Challenges and Future Prospects
- SECTION TWO HOW EXPERIENCE INTERACTS WITH BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
- SECTION THREE FORMATIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN AND ACROSS GENERATIONS
- SECTION FOUR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS OF CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT – NORMATIVE SETTINGS, PRACTICES, AND CONSEQUENCES
- SECTION FIVE FEAR, FUN, AND THE BOUNDARIES OF SOCIAL EXPERIENCE
- SECTION SIX PUBLIC HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
- Index
- References
2 - From Measurement to Meaning in Caregiving and Culture: Current Challenges and Future Prospects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Foreword by Robert Sapolsky
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- SECTION ONE HISTORICAL, CROSS-CULTURAL, AND DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES
- 1 Plasticity and Variation: Cultural Influences on Parenting and Early Child Development Within and Across Populations
- 2 From Measurement to Meaning in Caregiving and Culture: Current Challenges and Future Prospects
- SECTION TWO HOW EXPERIENCE INTERACTS WITH BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
- SECTION THREE FORMATIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITHIN AND ACROSS GENERATIONS
- SECTION FOUR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS OF CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT – NORMATIVE SETTINGS, PRACTICES, AND CONSEQUENCES
- SECTION FIVE FEAR, FUN, AND THE BOUNDARIES OF SOCIAL EXPERIENCE
- SECTION SIX PUBLIC HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
- Index
- References
Summary
It has been observed that the most significant single determiner of the future course of development may be where a child is born (Weisner, 2002); important differences in environments, emotions, and interactions characterize how different cultures shape human development. Comparisons consistently show that virtually all aspects of caregiving and human development are informed by their cultural context (Bornstein, 1980, 2009). This chapter is about the role of culture in caregiving and human development from a cross-cultural developmental science perspective. I discuss issues of both perennial and current relevance revolving around three themes: First, notions of similarity and difference across cultures; specifically, how they can be understood, measured for comparative analysis, and interpreted through the mediating role of meaning. Second, how culture can be studied; specifically, the problems of employing variables versus persons as units, the over-emphasis on cross-cultural versus cultural studies, and the abundance of cross-sectional over longitudinal studies. Third, the issue of cultural transmission; specifically, using the contextual ecological model to integrate culture into transmission, looking at the intergenerational transmission of culture, and accounting for the impact of diachronic change on cultural developmental studies. These are by no means the only topics that culture and development scholars view as important, nor are these topics always discretely different from one another. Finally, I wrap up with a discussion on current problems and future directions for the study of caregiving and human development in cultural context.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Formative ExperiencesThe Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology, pp. 36 - 50Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
References
, & (1979). History and rationale of longitudinal research. In & (Eds.), Longitudinal research in the study of behavior and development (pp. 1–39). New York: Academic Press.Google Scholar
(1958). Naven: A survey of the problems suggested by a composite picture of the culture of a New Guinea tribe drawn from three points of view (2nd ed.). Stanford: Stanford University Press.Google Scholar
(1980). Cross-cultural developmental psychology. In (Ed.), Comparative methods in psychology (pp. 231–281). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.Google Scholar
(Ed.). (2002a). Handbook of parenting: Practical issues in parenting (2nd ed., Vol. 5). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.Google Scholar
(2002b). Toward a multicultural, multiage, multimethod science. Human Development, 45, 257–263.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(2006). Parenting science and practice. In & (Eds.), W. Damon & R. M. Lerner (Series Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Vol. 4. Child psychology and practice (6th ed., pp. 893–949). New York: Wiley.Google Scholar
(2008). The specificity principle in parenting and child development. Unpublished manuscript, Eunice Kennedy ShriverNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development.Google Scholar
(Ed.). (2009). The handbook of cross-cultural developmental science. Part 1. Domains of development across cultures. Part 2. Development in different places on earth. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis Group.Google Scholar
, & (2001). Child and mother cardiac vagal tone: Continuity, stability and concordance across the first five years. Developmental Psychology, 36, 54–65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , , , , et al. (1992). Maternal responsiveness to infants in three societies: The United States, France, and Japan. Child Development, 63, 808–821.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
(1994). Ecological models of human development. In & (Eds.), International encyclopedia of education (2nd ed., Vol. 3, pp. 1643–1647). Oxford, UK: Pergamon/Eslevier Science.Google Scholar
, , , & (2005). Social functioning and adjustment in Chinese children: The imprint of historical time. Child Development, 76, 182–195.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
(1984). Temperament and infant mortality among the Masai of East Africa. American Journal of Psychiatry, 141, 10.Google ScholarPubMed
, & (2003–2005). Cross-cultural anthropology: A reference collection. New York: Springer.Google Scholar
, , & (1975). Ghosts in the nursery. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 14, 387–421.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , , , , , et al. (2006). Nutritional status and spousal empowerment among native Amazonians. Social Science & Medicine, 63, 1517–1530.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , , & (2003). Cultural pathways through universal development. Annual Review of Psychology, 54, 461–490.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, , , , , , et al. (2007). Cultural models and developmental agendas: Implications for arousal and self-regulation in early infancy. Journal of Developmental Processes, 1(2), 5–39.Google Scholar
, & (2005). Design, measurement, and analysis in developmental research. In & M. E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental science: An advanced textbook (5th ed., pp. 103–84). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.Google Scholar
(Ed.). (1982). Rituals of manhood: Male initiation in Papua New Guinea. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
, & . (2005). Value of children and family change: A three decade portrait from Turkey. Applied Psychology: International Review, 54, 317–337.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(2002). The tangled wing: Biological constraints on the human spirit (2nd ed.). New York: Times Books.Google Scholar
, , , , , , et al. (2005). Physical discipline and children's adjustment: Cultural normativeness as a moderator. Child Development, 76, 1234–1246.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
, & (1989). Biosocial responses to seasonal food stress in highland Peru. Human Biology, 61, 65–85.Google ScholarPubMed
(1998). The logic and implications of a person approach. In , , & (Eds.), Methods and models for studying the individual (pp. 33–63). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.Google Scholar
, & (1983). Implications and applications of an interactional perspective for human development. In & (Eds.), Human development: An interactional perspective (pp. 369–387). New York: Academic Press.Google Scholar
(1981). Nature-nurture and the two realms of development: A proposed integration with respect to mental development. Child Development, 52, 1–12.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1928). Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilization. New York: W. Morrow & Co.Google Scholar
, , & (1997). Integrating an emotional regulation perspective in an program of prenatal and early childhood home visitation. Journal of Community Psychology, 25, 59–75.3.0.CO;2-Y>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1990). Apprenticeship in thinking: Cognitive development in social context. New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
, & (1998). Toward a theory of culture as shared cognitive structures. Ethos, 26(3), 314–337.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1996). Culture in mind: Cognition, culture and the problem of meaning. New York: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
(1991). Thinking through cultures: Expeditions in cultural psychology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
(2000). German unification and adolescents' developmental timetables: Continuities and discontinuities. In & (Eds.), Negotiating adolescence in times of social change (pp. 104–122). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
, & (2002). Grandparenthood. In (Ed.), Handbook of parenting: Vol. 3. Status and social conditions of parenting (2nd ed., pp. 141–172). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.Google Scholar
. (Ed.). (1989–1999). History of anthropology series (Vols. 1–8). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.Google Scholar
, & (1982). The developmental niche: A conceptualization at the interface of child and culture. International journal of Behavioral Development 9, 1–25.Google Scholar
, & (1999). The environment as culture in developmental research. In & (Eds.), Measuring environment across the life span: Emerging methods and concepts (pp. 279–323). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, & (2003). Imbalances in the knowledge about infancy: The divide between rich and poor countries. Infant Mental Health Journal, 24, 547–556.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(1967). The forest of symbols: Aspects of Ndembu ritual. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar
& (2000). A review and synthesis of the measurement invariance literature: Suggestions, practices, and recommendations for organizational research. Organizational Research Methods, 3, 4–69.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, & (1997). Methods and data analysis for cross-cultural research. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.Google Scholar
(1992). Intergenerational transmission of parenting: A review of studies in nonclinical populations. Developmental Review, 12, 76–99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(2002). Ecocultural understanding of children's developmental pathways. Human Development, 45(4), 275–281.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, & (1979). Children of six cultures: A psycho-cultural analysis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
- 4
- Cited by