Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture

Sevda Bekman is a Professor in the Department of Primary Education at Bogazici University. Ayhan Aksu-Koc is a Profesor in the Department of Psychology at Bogazici University and in the Department of Psychology at Yeditepe University.

Preface; Foreword M. Brewster Smith; Part I. Cultural and Cross-Cultural Psychology: Selected Perspectives: 1. Indigenization and beyond: the process and extent of psychology's growth as an international science John G. Adair; 2. The continuing quest for psychological universals in categories, dimensions, taxonomies, and patterns of human behavior Walt J. Lonner; 3. Circumnavigating the psychological globe: from yin and yang to starry, starry night Michael Harris Bond; 4. The emerging global psychology movement: lessons from Arab psychology Uwe P. Gielen; Part II. Development in the Family Context: 5. Organizing principles and processes from developmental science for culture and caregiving Marc H. Bornstein and Derya Güngör; 6. A social change and human development perspective on the value of children Gisela Trommsdorff; 7. Turkish family structure and functioning Bilge Ataca; 8. Mothers' and fathers' child rearing practices and self-esteem in three generations of urban Turkish families Diane Sunar; Part III. Culture and Self: 9. In search of the autonomous-relational self-construal Peter B. Smith; 10. Culture and developmental pathways of relationship formation Heidi Keller and Robin Harwood; 11. Microgenesis of narrative competence during preschool interactions: effects of the relational context Aylin C. Küntay; 12. Self-development, individuation, and culture: a psychoanalytic search Güler Okman Fişek; Part IV. Social Change, Family, and Gender: 13. One or two pathways to modernity? A systematic comparison of Kağıtçıbaşı's Model of Family Change and the Model of the Second Demographic Transition Bernhard Nauck; 14. Living together in culturally-plural societies: understanding and managing acculturation and multiculturalism John W. Berry; 15. Cultural continuity and discontinuity in Turkish migrant families: extending the Model of Family Change Karen Phalet and Derya Güngör; 16. Values and attitudes of young people in urban Turkey: a further test of Schwartz's theory of values and Kağıtçıbaşı's Model of Family Change Hale Bolak Boratav; 17. Career development of professional women in Turkey Zeynep Aycan; Part V. Induced Change: 18. Adapting intervention programs for use across societies: between valid transfer and cultural imposition Ype H. Poortinga; 19. Design of culturally-appropriate developmental interventions Nazli Baydar; 20. Designing, implementing, sustaining, and evaluating idiocultures for learning and development: the case study of the Fifth Dimension Michael Cole; 21. Intervention programs to improve cognitive skills Sami Gülgöz; 22. Pro-poor approaches to using technology for human development: monitoring and evaluation perspectives Daniel A. Wagner; Epilogue T. S. Saraswathi.