The evolving nature of self-identity across four levels of history

Human Development

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-18

  Dien, Dora Shu Fang ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural identity ; Historical context ; Self identity ; Sociocultural context ; The chinese ; The japanese ; Vygotsky scribner

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041993677     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022650     Document Type: Article

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