Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development, Third Edition

by Harry W. Gardiner

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.

Genres: Psychology, Cultural, Nonfiction

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Alejandra · Rating 2 out of 5]

interesting to learn about the human development but not that interesting.

[Wendy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This textbook on human development and culture was all over the place. Although it's the fourth edition, it still had some typographical errors and it had parenthetical asides that got on my last nerve such as, "I bet you never thought blah, blah, blah!" This is a graduate level text, please spare me the comments! There's something to be said for readability, but I'd like something a little more academic. I want to have to work a little and draw my own conclusions. It also gave a lot of information too broadly. Granted, given the broad scope, there is only so much the authors can include, but show me some numbers every now and then. This book pretty much sucked.

[Ishanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yes, this lovely book is a text book. But if you're interested in Cultural Anthropology, this one is highly recommended as it's an easy read. The author makes every aspect simple and very clear. The case studies actually pulled me in enough to want to find out more regarding human behavior. I highly recommend to my fellow nerds out there :)

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

While it doesn't go very in depth into the topics, it provides a great overview of the most important topics and how they play out in different cultures at different life stages. The great references for further reading make it worth it because you have plenty of places to start for further research on each of the topics covered.

[Sammie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked it, it was good. I feel that I have a better understanding of not only the American culture, but other cultures as well.