Further explorations of the "Western mind" Euro-American and German mother's and grandmothers' ethnotheories

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Keller, Heidi ^a   Demuth, Carolin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Independence; Interdependence; Parental ethnotheories; Relatedness; Transcultural and transgenerational comparison; Western mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 31844448634     PISSN: 14385627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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