Historical change, cultural learning, and cognitive representation in Zinacantec Maya children

Greenfield, Patricia M.; Maynard, Ashley E.; Childs, Carla P.

doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2003.09.004

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“…A recent longitudinal study in Zinantec Mayan communities in Chiapas, Mexico find that, over a period of 30 years, a shift from agricultural subsistence to entrepreneurial commerce was associated with a change from a conservative weaving apprenticeship (emphasizing compliance to the master) to an innovative apprenticeship (featured by learner independence and experimentation) (Greenfield et al 2003). Moreover, this change in social organization was associated with a shift from concrete to abstract representation of weaving patterns.…”

Section: Production Of Independent and Interdependent Values And Pracmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture, Mind, and the Brain: Current Evidence and Future Directions

Kitayama

Üskül

2011

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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Current research on culture focuses on independence and interdependence and documents numerous East-West psychological differences, with an increasing emphasis placed on cognitive mediating mechanisms. Lost in this literature is a time-honored idea of culture as a collective process composed of cross-generationally transmitted values and associated behavioral patterns (i.e., practices). A new model of neuro-culture interaction proposed here addresses this conceptual gap by hypothesizing that the brain serves as a crucial site that accumulates effects of cultural experience, insofar as neural connectivity is likely modified through sustained engagement in cultural practices. Thus, culture is “embrained,” and moreover, this process requires no cognitive mediation. The model is supported in a review of empirical evidence regarding (a) collective-level factors involved in both production and adoption of cultural values and practices and (b) neural changes that result from engagement in cultural practices. Future directions of research on culture, mind, and the brain are discussed.

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Section: Production Of Independent and Interdependent Values And Pracmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture, Mind, and the Brain: Current Evidence and Future Directions

Kitayama

Üskül

2011

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

590

392

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“…Research has shown that socioeconomic development predicts various indicators of individualism, independence and autonomy, both contemporaneously across nations and historically within nations (Greenfield, 2013;Greenfield, Maynard, & Childs, 2003;Grossmann & Varnum, 2015;Hofstede, 2001;Inglehart & Baker, 2000;H. Park, Twenge, & Greenfield, 2014).…”

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Beyond the ‘east–west’ dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood.

Vignoles¹,

Owe²,

Becker³

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Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Copyright and reuse:Sussex Research Online is a digital repository of the research output of the University.Copyright and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable, the material made available in SRO has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way.Article accepted for publication in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000175 © American Psychological Association (APA) This article may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record. contrast between independence and interdependence does not adequately capture the diverse models of selfhood that prevail in different world regions. Cultural groups emphasize different ways of being both independent and interdependent, depending on individualism-collectivism, national socioeconomic development, and religious heritage. Our seven-dimensional model will allow future researchers to test more accurately the implications of cultural models of selfhood for psychological processes in diverse ecocultural contexts.Keywords: CULTURE; SELF-CONSTRUALS; INDEPENDENCE-INTERDEPENDENCE Twenty-five years ago, Markus and Kitayama (1991) published their classic article on culture and the self, proposing that people in different parts of the world tend to construe themselves in two fundamentally different ways. They argued that Western cultures are unusual in promoting an independent view of the self as bounded, unitary, stable, and separate from the social context, whereas cultures in other parts of the world emphasize an interdependent view of the self as closely connected to others, fluid, and contextually embedded. They proposed that people with independent self-construals would strive for self-expression, uniqueness, and self-actualization, basing their actions on personal thoughts, feelings, and goals. In contrast, people with interdependent self-construals would strive to fit in and maintain social harmony, basing their actions on situationally defined norms and expectations.Markus and Kitayama's (1991) proposals had a dramatic impact on social, personality and developmental psychology, challenging ethnocentric assumptions, drawing attention to cultural diversity, and providing conceptual tools for theorizing about it. Social and personality psychologists used measures and manipulations of self-construals to predict numerous outcomes: cognitive styles, well-being, self-regulation, selfesteem, communication styles, social anxiety, and pro...

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“…Goodnow, 2001). As Greenfield, Maynard, and Childs (2003) have put it, "In sum, socialization and development are not fixed but adapt, in a coordinated way, to changing ecological conditions" (p. 455).…”

Section: Parental Ethnotheories and The Child's Learning Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigenous and cultural psychology: understanding people in context

2006

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A continuation Order Plan is available for this series. A continuation order will bring delivery of each new volume immediately upon publication. Volumes are billed only upon actual shipment. For further information please contact the publisher. Indigenous and Cultural Psychology Understanding People in ContextEdited by Uichol KimChung-Ang University Seoul, Korea Kuo-Shu Yang Fo Guang College of Humanities and Social Sciences Ilan, Taiwan Kwang-kuo HwangNational Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan Library of Congress Control Number: 2005932042 ISBN-10: 0-387-28661-6 eISBN 0-387-28662-4 ISBN-13: 0-978-387-28661-7 Printed on acid-free paper © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now know or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. He is the author/editor of three books, three special issues of journals, and numerous articles and chapters in books. Dr. Adair's research and writing has focused on social studies of the science of psychology, addressing such topics as the social nature of human research methodology, ethics of research with human subjects, social science research policy, indigenisation and development of the discipline in developing countries, and the internationalization of psychology. E-mail: adair@Ms.UManitoba.CA.Yukari Ariizumi is a doctoral student at the Department of Social Psychology, University of Tokyo, Japan, where she received her M.A. in social psychology. Her dissertation is concerned with the psychological function of the gender-differentiated Japanese expressions. Her research interests include the effect of the Japanese sentence endings on person perception, self-identification, interpersonal relationship, and the gender stereotype particularly in Japanese culture.Vibeke Grover Aukrust is professor in educational psychology at the Institute for Educational Research at the University of Oslo. She has been doing cross-cultural research on language socialization and parental beliefs in Norway and the US and is currently directing a study of language and literacy development in Turkish minority children in Norway. She is the author of articles and chapters on socialization of childhood language, speech genres in parent-child conversation, and cultural Zhong Nian graduated from the department of psychology of Peking University in 1983, and was a lecturer in psychology at the Institute of Anthropology at Hubei Universit...

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Historical change, cultural learning, and cognitive representation in Zinacantec Maya children

Cited by 106 publications

References 14 publications

Culture, Mind, and the Brain: Current Evidence and Future Directions

Culture, Mind, and the Brain: Current Evidence and Future Directions

Beyond the ‘east–west’ dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood.

Indigenous and cultural psychology: understanding people in context

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