Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Harry W. Gardiner (Author), Corinne Kosmitzki (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 6, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0205323227 | ISBN-13: 978-0205323227 | Edition: 2

This book brings a cross-cultural dimension to the study of human development across the lifespan. It focuses on major developmental topics and provides a global and multicultural perspective by introducing the reader to contemporary and classical research. Basic principles and research findings are connected to practical everyday situations in order to enrich one's understanding of and appreciation for development as it occurs in diverse cultures throughout the world. Covering the entire lifespan, this book focuses on cultural contexts throughout the world while emphasizing links between theory, research and practical applications. For people interested in cross-cultural issues in the fields of psychology, sociology, anthropology, education or family studies.

Editorial Reviews

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“Covering all of the major developmental topics from cradle to grave, they take the reader through the labyrinth of lives that work and play and, unfortunately, fight through occasional major crises and the vexing problems of growing up. The style and tone of the book is genuinely comfortable. Reading it is like having a friendly dialogue with gentle and caring friends.”

 

From the Forward by Walter J. Lonner

Western Washington University

 

 

“To our knowledge this book has no competition, and is unique … It is unusual for a book to change a curriculum, but rather than being written to fill a demand for classes in cross-cultural human development, it appears that these courses are being created at various universities because Gardiner and Kozmitzki published this text … As Lonner writes in the foreword, the field is changing quickly and significantly, and LAC is in great hands as Gardiner and Kosmitzki reflect this change in each new edition.”

 

David W. Shwalb and Barbara J. Shwalb

Southeastern Louisiana University

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

Covering the entire lifespan, this book focuses on cultural contexts throughout the world while emphasizing links between theory, research and practical applications. This book brings a cross-cultural dimension to the study of human development across the lifespan. It focuses on major developmental topics and provides a global and multicultural perspective by introducing the reader to contemporary and classical research. Basic principles and research findings are connected to practical everyday situations in order to enrich one's understanding of and appreciation for development as it occurs in diverse cultures throughout the world. For people interested in cross-cultural issues in the fields of psychology, sociology, anthropology, education or family studies.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; 2 edition (July 6, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0205323227
• ISBN-13: 978-0205323227
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,840,491 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Harry Gardiner is retired from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where he taught for more than 25 years. He has degrees from American International College, the University of Hawaii, and Manchester University in England, where he met his future wife, who was from Thailand. He chased her to Asia, where they married and moved to the United States two years later. He often says that he "grew up" in an Asian American family in which his wife was Asian, he was American, and their children were Asian American and he was the minority--"the one with the blond hair and the blue eyes!" He was a charter member of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, served as president of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research and is a consulting editor for the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. In addition to publishing articles in a wide variety of journals and participating in national and international meetings, he has coauthored a number of chapters on cross-cultural topics for other books. He has engaged in training, teaching, and research in Europe, Asia, and the United States. In his "spare time" he enjoys writing for Cobblestone, a history magazine for young children, and has contributed interviews with Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Muppet creator Jim Henson, Tom Rockwell, son of the artist Norman Rockwell and author of the popular book "How to Eat Fried Worms," among others. He enjoys watching the development of his four young grandchildren as they navigate a much more culturally diversified world than he experienced at their ages. The photo to the right shows him at the age of two "working" on one of his first books.

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stands alone as the cross-cultural developmental text book, March 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development (Paperback)

I just got this book from the publisher and have decided to use it for my cross-cultural development class. No other book that I have found does an even remotely adequate job of combining cross-cultural research and human development. Teaching this class should be a lot easier.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun reading for a textbook!, December 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development (Paperback)

I have used this book as a textbook in a sophmore - junior - senior level university course in cross-cultural psychology. It is so readable, that students report that they read ahead just for fun. Recommended for anyone interested in how culture affects our lives.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars easy to understand with many interesting stories, March 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development (Paperback)

I have read that book and I found many interesting stories about how culture affect our live which I've never imagine it before and I learn a lot about many different unique cultures around the world and if you want to know more detail about culture differences and compare them, you should read this book.