Abstract

The goal of this spotlight series was to bring together scholars offering innovative ways of conceptualizing how culture shows up in human development. Here in the Conclusion, we argue that the six papers in this series overlap in their conceptualization of culture as a shared system that involves meanings. With these features in common, the papers then offer us four distinct frameworks for addressing how culture shows up in development. By providing alternatives to “cause-effect,” “positivist,” and “variable” approaches to studying culture and development that are common in psychology, we argue that these frameworks can improve applied developmental research. At the same time, we raise three issues that remain unaddressed by these frameworks—issues of cultural transformation, individual variations, and generalization. Attending to these issues would further augment our ability to address how culture shows up in development.

摘要

这个聚焦系列的目的是召集学者，提供创新的方法来概念化文化在人类发展中的表现方式。在结论中，我们认为本系列的六篇论文在将文化概念化为涉及意义的共享系统方面存在重叠。有了这些共同点，这些论文就为我们提供了四个不同的框架，以解决文化在发展中的表现方式。通过提供替代“因果”，“实证主义”和“可变”方法来研究心理学中常见的文化和发展的方法，我们认为这些框架可以改善应用发展研究。同时，我们提出了这些框架尚未解决的三个问题：文化变革，个体差异和泛化问题。