Social and Cognitive Development in the Context of Individual, Social, and Cultural Processes

Recently, a proliferation of theoretical and empirical scholarship has emerged on how social and cultural factors shape development. This work has provided important information about the multiple goals and pathways of development throughout the world, yet many issues still remain open for continued analysis and refinement. This book addresses how individual, social and cultural factors intersect during development by bringing together an international group of scholars with diverse theoretical perspectives who conduct research in varied cultural contexts.
The first section of the book focuses on how wider contexts of development are structured through interactions among individual, social and cultural processes. Specific chapters in this section focus on how the wider cultural context is constituted and enacted by individuals, including children and their caregivers, as they engage in social interactions. This section also includes analyses of how social contexts are dynamically constructed and negotiated as children actively participate in concrete social interactions. The second section of the book focuses on how social interactions and cultural values shape specific aspects of development, including the development of object manipulation, future orientations and self-conceptions. The book ends with an integrative analysis of how infant experiences form the foundations of adult relational self-conceptions.

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Table of contents : Introduction
Part 1: Context of Developments
1. Interaction and Development Accounting for Emergence Jaan Valsiner
2. Patterns of Culturally Meaningful Activity: Linking Parents' Ideas and Parent-Child Interactions Catherine Raeff
3. Environmental Chaos, Development, and Parenting Across Cultures Theodore D. Wachs and Feyza Corapci
4. Play as a Context for the Socialization of Interpersonal Relationships M. Christina Ramirez
5. Context and the Dynamic Construal of Meaning in Early Childhood Nancy Budwig
6. The Multiple Agendas of Intersubjectivity in Children's Group Writing Activity Chikako Toma and James V. Wertsch
Part 2: Developing Through Culturally Shaped Social Interactions
7. Object Manipulation in Context Jeffery J. Lockman
8. The Social and Cultural Context of the Development of Future Orientation Janette B. Benson, Ayelet Talmi, and Marshall M. Haith
9. Level this, Level that: That Place of Culture in the Construction of the Self Michael J. Chandler and Bryan W. Sokol
Part 3: Final Thoughts: Infancy as the Foundation for Intersecting individual, Social, and Cultural Processes
10.Lessons form our Infancy: Relationships to Self, Other, and Nature Alan Fogel

Contributor Information :Janette B. Benson, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, USA;
Nancy Budwig, Department of Psychology, Clark University, USA;
Michael Chandler, Psychology Department, University of British Columbia, Canada;
Feyza Çorapçi, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, USA;
Alan Fogel, Department of Psychology, University of Utah, USA;
Marshall M. Haith, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, USA;
Jeffrey Lockman, Department of Psychology, Tulane University, USA;
Catherine Raeff, Department of Psychology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA;
Cristina Ramirez, Detroit Receiving Hospital and University Health Center, USA;
Bryan W. Sokol, Psychology Department, University of British Columbia, USA;
Ayelet Talmi, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, USA;
Chikako Toma, The National Language Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan;
Jaan Valsiner, Department of Psychology, Clark University, USA;
Theodore D. Wachs, Department of Psychology, Purdue University, USA;
James V. Wertsch, Department of Education, Washington University, USA.