Concrete Operational Development in Three Cultures
Berry's (1971) model of ecological functionalism is extended to Piagetian developmental psychology. It is predicted that the rate of development of concrete operations may be partly determined by ecological and cultural factors. In particular, if three subsistence-economy populations are placed...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/002202217562002 2024-06-16T07:39:45+00:00 Concrete Operational Development in Three Cultures Dasen, Pierre R. 1975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002202217562002 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002202217562002 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology volume 6, issue 2, page 156-172 ISSN 0022-0221 1552-5422 journal-article 1975 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/002202217562002 2024-05-19T13:04:31Z Berry's (1971) model of ecological functionalism is extended to Piagetian developmental psychology. It is predicted that the rate of development of concrete operations may be partly determined by ecological and cultural factors. In particular, if three subsistence-economy populations are placed on an ecocultural scale, with low food-accumulating, nomadic, hunting groups at one extreme, and high food-accumulating, sedentary, agricultur-alist groups at the other extreme, the former are expected to develop spatial concepts more rapidly than will the latter, whereas the sedentary group is expected to attain concepts of conservation of quantity, weight, and volume more rapidly than nomadic groups will. The model is largely supported by the results of a study involving 190 children (aged six to fourteen from three cultural groups: Canadian Eskimos, Australian Aborigines, and Ebrie Africans. The discussion centers on ambiguous results obtained in the age range eight to eleven years for the conservation tasks. Article in Journal/Newspaper eskimo* SAGE Publications Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 6 2 156 172 |
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Berry's (1971) model of ecological functionalism is extended to Piagetian developmental psychology. It is predicted that the rate of development of concrete operations may be partly determined by ecological and cultural factors. In particular, if three subsistence-economy populations are placed on an ecocultural scale, with low food-accumulating, nomadic, hunting groups at one extreme, and high food-accumulating, sedentary, agricultur-alist groups at the other extreme, the former are expected to develop spatial concepts more rapidly than will the latter, whereas the sedentary group is expected to attain concepts of conservation of quantity, weight, and volume more rapidly than nomadic groups will. The model is largely supported by the results of a study involving 190 children (aged six to fourteen from three cultural groups: Canadian Eskimos, Australian Aborigines, and Ebrie Africans. The discussion centers on ambiguous results obtained in the age range eight to eleven years for the conservation tasks. |
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