Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Editors’ Introduction Contemporary Socio-Cultural Research
- Part I Theoretical and methodological issues
- Part II From nature to culture
- Part III From orientation to meaning
- Part IV Symbolic resources for the constitution of experience
- Part V From society to the person through culture
- Chapter 20 Apprenticeship in Conversation and Culture
- Chapter 21 The Creation of New Cultures in Peer Interaction
- Chapter 22 “Culture Has No Internal Territory”
- Chapter 23 Cultural-Historical Approaches to Designing for Development
- Chapter 24 Money as a Cultural Tool Mediating Personal Relationships
- Chapter 25 The Family
- Part VI From social culture to personal culture
- Part VII Making sense of the past for the future: memory and self-reflection
- General Conclusions: Socio-Cultural Psychology on the Move
- Index
Chapter 25 - The Family
Negotiating Cultural Values
from Part V - From society to the person through culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Editors’ Introduction Contemporary Socio-Cultural Research
- Part I Theoretical and methodological issues
- Part II From nature to culture
- Part III From orientation to meaning
- Part IV Symbolic resources for the constitution of experience
- Part V From society to the person through culture
- Chapter 20 Apprenticeship in Conversation and Culture
- Chapter 21 The Creation of New Cultures in Peer Interaction
- Chapter 22 “Culture Has No Internal Territory”
- Chapter 23 Cultural-Historical Approaches to Designing for Development
- Chapter 24 Money as a Cultural Tool Mediating Personal Relationships
- Chapter 25 The Family
- Part VI From social culture to personal culture
- Part VII Making sense of the past for the future: memory and self-reflection
- General Conclusions: Socio-Cultural Psychology on the Move
- Index
Summary
This chapter addresses some principles and practices of being part of a family, with specific focus on the family in India. It discusses the issue of methodology in the study of cultures, especially with reference to preferring families as opposed to individuals as the unit of study in certain kinds of research. Care of the new generation is one of the critical tasks for the family. The economic dimension of family cohesiveness is important to consider. At every step, the social organization of resources has determined the structure of the family that would "best fit" the social organization. The condition of human beings is inextricably bound to created ideas and situations, and to having moved far beyond the limitation of genetic material. The dynamic organization and authority structures within the family have also been studied to have distinct consequences with specific reference to children.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology , pp. 524 - 540Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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