PARENTING AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN ?NONTRADITIONAL? FAMILIES. Michael E. Lamb (Editor), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey, 1999. No. of pages: 368. Price: $34.50 (paperback). ISBN: 0-80582-748-X (original) (raw)

Theoretical and Methodological aspects of cross-cultural research

Psicothema, 2000

The first two articles discuss the conceptions and influence of culture on social behavior. Paez & Gonzalez's article discusses the way culture can be conceived, and explains differences in social behavior. Ovejero's article proposes a social constructionist view of emotions. The first article stresses a realistic and sociocultural approach to culture, cognition, motivation and emotion. The second posits the importance of language and historical and cultural relativism in the understanding of emotions.

Culture as idea and practice in youth and family life

2018

8. Article "You went on early retirement while still having a fast-food place in Lebanon"-the role of social class in ethnically diverse contexts …………………………………………………………... 9. Perspectives …………………………………………………………… 9.1 Culture as idea ………………………………………………… 9.2 Culture as practice …………………………………………….. 9.3 Methodological contributions …………………………………. 9.4 Societal perspectives of my study ……………………………..

Constructing ‘the family’ across culture

Journal of Family Therapy, 2009

In this paper, which is based on a larger research study, I address the research question: How is 'the family' constructed and talked about in intercultural and intracultural systemic clinical sessions? I use the qualitative research method of discourse analysis to analyse transcripts from eleven intercultural and intracultural video-taped family therapy sessions. The participants in the research study were South Asian and White British clinicians and families. Through discourse analysis, I identified the 'Outsider-Insider discourse of family life' to describe the different ways in which families define the boundaries around 'the family'. The findings suggest that although 'the family' was constructed differently by South Asian and White British families, cliniciansregardless of whether they were working interculturally or intraculturally-privileged a discourse of 'the family' as a two-generation, two-parent unit. The theoretical, clinical and training implication of this finding will be discussed. 'What should I draw next, Mum?' asked my son Miheer, then aged 8. 'Why don't you draw your family?' I suggested somewhat absently. Twenty minutes later: 'I've run out of paper, Mum.' Looking down, I saw a vast array of uncles, aunts and cousins drawn in bright colours. Each sheet of A3 paper had been used to depict a different country where a branch of Miheer's migrant extended family lived. In that moment I felt both perplexed and proud. I had imagined that Miheer's family map, like my own, would be compact and contained within a single sheet of paper. It would consist, centrally, of me, the single parent with whom he had always lived, and himself. I realized, humbly, that we had managed to create a context where Miheer could keep alive his relationships with his wider family and culture. It also dawned on me that Miheer and I, while living in the same 'family', had radically different ideas about what this meant.

Family, Culture, and Communication

and Keywords Through the years, the concept of family has been studied by family therapists, psychology scholars, and sociologists with a diverse theoretical framework, such as family communication patterns (FCP) theory, dyadic power theory, conflict, and family systems theory. Among these theories, there are two main commonalities throughout its findings: the interparental relationship is the core interaction in the familial system because the quality of their communication or coparenting significantly affects the enactment of the caregiver role while managing conflicts, which are not the exception in the familial setting. Coparenting is understood in its broader sense to avoid an extensive discussion of all type of families in our society. Second, while including the main goal of parenting, which is the socialization of values, this process intrinsically suggests cultural assimilation as the main cultural approach rather than intergroup theory, because intercultural marriages need to decide which values are considered the best to be socialized. In order to do so, examples from the Thai culture and Hispanic and Latino cultures served to show cultural assimilation as an important mediator of coparenting communication patterns, which subsequently affect other subsystems that influence individuals' identity and self-esteem development in the long run. Finally, future directions suggest that the need for incorporating a nonhegemonic one-way definition of cultural assimilation allows immigration status to be brought into the discussion of family communication issues in the context of one of the most diverse countries in the world.

Cross-Cultural Research and the Challenges of Globalisation

2015

The purpose of this paper is to review the most important contributions in theory and methodology of crosscultural research. It aims to highlight that differences in behavioural patterns between cultural groups are seen as indices of broader aspects of behavioural or psychological functioning. Culture is conceptualised as a set of constructed psychological meanings (internal culture) and as a set of external conditions within which humans develop and act (external culture). Furthermore, it claims that there are common psychological processes in all human beings, and that cultures shape the development and expression of these underlying features.