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The Middle East : A Cultural Psychology.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture, Cognition, and Behavior SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (471 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195346756
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Middle EastDDC classification:
  • 155.820956
LOC classification:
  • GN502.G76 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: Cultural Context of Development -- 1 Misunderstandings -- 2 The Social Ecology of Psychological Development -- 3 Honor and Islam: Shaping Emotions, Traits, and Selves -- PART II: Periods of Psychological Development -- INTRODUCTION TO PART II -- 4 Childbirth and Infant Care -- 5 Early Childhood -- 6 Late Childhood -- 7 Adolescence -- 8 Early Adulthood and Identity -- 9 Mature Adulthood -- 10 Patterns and Lives: Development Through the Life-Span -- AFTERWORD: A Research Agenda -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: The first comprehensive summary of psychological studies of Arab-Muslim societies, this book examines psychological development through the life-span, describing how traditional patterns appear to be changing in both "modernizing" and "underdeveloping" sectors of Middle Eastern societies. It provides a scholarly account of the region's cultural psychology, and also offers insight into the daily lives of parents, children, and families as they struggle behind and sometimes in the headlines to modernize while conserving valued traditions.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: Cultural Context of Development -- 1 Misunderstandings -- 2 The Social Ecology of Psychological Development -- 3 Honor and Islam: Shaping Emotions, Traits, and Selves -- PART II: Periods of Psychological Development -- INTRODUCTION TO PART II -- 4 Childbirth and Infant Care -- 5 Early Childhood -- 6 Late Childhood -- 7 Adolescence -- 8 Early Adulthood and Identity -- 9 Mature Adulthood -- 10 Patterns and Lives: Development Through the Life-Span -- AFTERWORD: A Research Agenda -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The first comprehensive summary of psychological studies of Arab-Muslim societies, this book examines psychological development through the life-span, describing how traditional patterns appear to be changing in both "modernizing" and "underdeveloping" sectors of Middle Eastern societies. It provides a scholarly account of the region's cultural psychology, and also offers insight into the daily lives of parents, children, and families as they struggle behind and sometimes in the headlines to modernize while conserving valued traditions.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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