Durganand Sinha was a visionary who gave psychology in India new directions and identity through his seminal writings and efforts. This is the first book featuring Durganand Sinha’s seminal contributions to psychology. It includes his key articles in the areas of indigenous psychology; self, family and social values; and human and socio-economic development. His life-long endeavour was to develop a psychology for India, and his publications opened up new areas of research. His book Psychology in a Third World Country: The Indian Experience (1986), a SAGE publication, played an important role in shaping contemporary psychological research in India. This volume will inspire researchers in various disciplines of social sciences to pursue research for psycho-socio-economic development of India.
A landmark collection of both theory and applications in cross-cultural psychology, Asian Contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology offers a new and revealing perspective--the Asian sociocultural context. This team of notable international contributors offers rich source material on a wide range of compelling issues, among them, the impact of culture on socialization and development of the self, cognitive and achievement processes, and cross-cultural adjustment. A cross-cultural examination of entrepreneurship, unemployment, and aging also augments this valuable compilation. Taken together, the chapters reveal that for a more complete understanding of human nature, and for planned intervention to solve problems, the sociocultural context must be taken into serious consideration. Asian Contributions to Cross-Cultural Psychology is an important resource for both researchers and students in cross-cultural psychology, personality and developmental psychology, cultural anthropology, and sociology as well as practitioners working in multicultural contexts in the wide range of human services.
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