Human Behavior in Global Perspective An Introduction to Cross Cultural Psychology
by Segall, Marshall H.; Dasen, Pierre R.; Berry, John W.; Poortinga, Ype H.Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-03-02
Publisher(s): Pearson
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Summary
This book emphasizes the need to explore human behavior in its socio-cultural context. Designed for upper level undergraduate courses or graduate level courses.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Human Development and Informal Education | |
| Why Study Developmental Psychology Cross-Culturally? | |
| The Developmental Niche | |
| Informal Education | |
| Adolescence, Life Span, and Old Age | |
| Conclusion | |
| Perceptual and Cognitive Processes | |
| Perception and Visual Illusions | |
| Categorization | |
| Memory | |
| Problem Solving | |
| The Cognitive Consequences of Literacy and Schooling | |
| Experimental Anthropology | |
| Conclusion | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Motives, Beliefs, and Values | |
| Why Study Values Cross-Culturally? | |
| Culturally-Influenced Beliefs about Illness | |
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