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Culture and human development: The value of cross-cultural perspective for a relevant history |
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MENA Dubai 2003 Abstract
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Idem Katcba
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Culture and human development: The value of cross-cultural perspective for a relevant history Idem Katcba As psychological phenomena always occur in context, their analyses should also be contextual. This has not been typically the case for mainstream psychology, resulting in culture-blind theorizing and the imposition of Western perspectives on global psychology. The growth of cross-cultural research in the last decades has served as a corrective to this problem. Though much ground has been covered, there is need for more culture-sensitive research and theory, particularly in the study of human development in context and particularly in this part of the world. Examples of society-family-self dynamics will be discussed as cases in point with both theoretical and applied significance. |
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