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5 - Organizing principles and processes from developmental science for culture and caregiving

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2010

By
Marc H. Bornstein  and
Derya Güngör
Edited by
Sevda Bekman  and
Ayhan Aksu-Koç
Foreword by
M. Brewster Smith
Sevda Bekman
Affiliation:
Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
Ayhan Aksu-Koç
Affiliation:
Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
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Summary

Human development is socialization, together with maturation. It encompasses the lifelong process of becoming social, becoming a member of a society. Thus, it involves constant interaction with the socio-cultural environment. Any study of human development, therefore, must have contextual and temporal dimensions. Indeed, significant trends in these directions are getting established with the rise of cultural and cross-cultural psychology on the one hand, and lifespan developmental approaches on the other.

(Kağıtçıbaşı (1996: 19)

Introduction

Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı's (1996) Model of Family Change (MFC) provides a systematic framework to analyze dynamic intergenerational relationships with equally dynamic socio-economic conditions. The model assigns a key role to the family as mediator between culture and self. This role, through which core cultural values are handed down across generations, is not passive. Rather, the family is cast as an active agent that selectively transmits cultural values and continually adapts to changing circumstances. This chapter discusses culture, caregiving, and child development in a way intended to complement and supplement Kağıtçıbaşı's seminal contributions.

Human beings do not grow up, and adults do not parent, in isolation, but in multiple contexts, and one notable context is culture. Culture infuses developmental and psychological phenomena and is inseparable from them. Culture is therefore a crucial desideratum in caregiving and child development. All societies prescribe certain characteristics that their members are expected to possess, and proscribe others they must not do, if they are to behave acceptably as members of the society (Harkness and Super 2002).

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Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture , pp. 69 - 85
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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