Using "the Japanese problem" as a corrective to the Ethnocentricity of Western theory

Child Development

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1155-1158

  Tobin, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JAPAN; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIALIZATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034280589     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8624.00219     Document Type: Article

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