GROUNDING DEVELOPMENT IN CULTURE: HOW TO STUDY THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON DEVELOPMENT Cover Image

GROUNDING DEVELOPMENT IN CULTURE: HOW TO STUDY THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON DEVELOPMENT
GROUNDING DEVELOPMENT IN CULTURE: HOW TO STUDY THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE ON DEVELOPMENT

Author(s): Ionuţ-Sergiu Mone, Oana Benga, Thea Ionescu
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: embodiment; grounded cognition; culture; parental practices.

Summary/Abstract: One way to understand the unfolding of human development is to consider it a culturally situated phenomenon. The present paper aims to provide a grounded perspective on how culture influences human development, specifically one in which shared practices, artifacts, ways of relating, and institutions become more important than the abstract norms of a culture in shaping development. We will analyze thus how development might become grounded in culture through the specific tools, cultural tasks and bodily actions that children from a culture are exposed to via parental practices. In the end, we discuss the implications of such a perspective for studying the interaction between culture and development.

  • Issue Year: 59/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 63-82
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English
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