Culture, Thought, and Development

Larry Nucci (Edited by) ,  Geoffrey B. Saxe (Edited by) ,  Elliot Turiel (Edited by)

• Contents: Preface. Part I: Epistemological Issues.J. Margolis, Would You Say Developmental Psychology Was a Science? The Cultural Paradigm of Mind. M. Donald, The Central Role of Culture in Cognitive Evolution: A Reflection on the Myth of the "Isolated Mind." Part II: Personal, Social, and Affective Development.M.C. Nussbaum, Emotions and Social Norms. M.J. Chandler, C.E. Lalonde, B.J. Sokol, Continuities of Selfhood in the Face of Radical Development and Cultural Change. C. Strauss, The Culture Concept and the Individualism-Collectivism Debate: Dominant and Alternative Attributions for Class in the United States. L.P. Nucci, E. Turiel, The Moral and the Personal: Sources of Social Conflicts. Part III: The Development of Physical and Spatial Knowledge.A.A. diSessa, Does the Mind Know the Difference Between the Physical and Social Worlds? P. Brown, S.C. Levinson, Frames of Spatial Reference and Their Acquisition in Tenejapan Tzeltal. M. Bowerman, Where Do Children's Word Meanings Come From? Rethinking the Role of Cognition in Early Semantic Development. P.M. Greenfield, Culture and Universals: Integrating Social and Cognitive Development.

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