Cross-cultural psychology and development.

Abstract

(from the introduction) while recognising the role of human factors in development, [the author] has strongly advocated that the western assumptions and theories about human nature need to be replaced by sound knowledge based on cross-cultural research which takes into account traditions, values, and the way of life of the people / identified a number of socio-cultural variables which are typical characteristics of developing societies and has attempted to relate them to development processes argued that a different model is needed to understand the family dynamics and society for effective social engineering to facilitate human development / models based on the individualistic cultural ethos do not have much significance in developing countries / suggested a holistic model of human development focusing on the interaction of the growing child with his/her family and the interaction of the family with its environment (the community) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)