Japanese Frames of Mind

Cultural Perspectives on Human Development

Robert A LeVine editor Hidetada Shimizu editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:7th Jan '02

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Japanese Frames of Mind asks, 'What challenge does Japanese psychology offer to Western psychology'?

Japanese Frames of Mind calls for a reexamination of Western psychology in the light of research conducted by Japanese and American researchers at Harvard University. The chapters provide a wealth of new data related to Japanese child development, moral reasoning, schooling, family socialization, and adolescent experiences.Japanese Frames of Mind addresses two main questions in light of a collection of research conducted by both Japanese and American researchers at Harvard University: What challenge does Japanese psychology offer to Western psychology? Will the presumed universals of human nature discovered by Western psychology be reduced to a set of 'local psychology' among many in a world of unpredicted variations? The chapters provide a wealth of new data and perspectives related to aspects of Japanese child development, moral reasoning and narratives, schooling and family socialization, and adolescent experiences. By placing the Japanese evidence within the context of Western psychological theory and research, the book calls for a systematic reexamination of Western psychology as one psychology among many other ethnopsychologies. Written in mostly non-technical language, this book will appeal to developmental and cultural psychologists, anthropologists interested in psychological anthropology, educators, and anyone interested in Japanese and Asian studies.

' … a useful introduction to how the Japanese are socially developing in the twenty-first century.' Raymond Lamont-Brown

ISBN: 9780521786980

Dimensions: 228mm x 153mm x 17mm

Weight: 440g

300 pages