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Listening to Culture presents everyday cultural activity in Indian family and community life in order to demonstrate why and how such activity must be encompassed in the study of individuals and collectives. The author explores the rich world of everyday talk-in families, with children, between friends, at the work place-and shows the significance of this domain of social activity for an understanding of culture

Social changes and technological advancement have profoundly impacted the human condition, and the former world order has gradually become obsolete as domination and imperialism are no longer justifiable. In the social and developmental sciences, such a shift implies the expansion of theory, methods, and application to embrace diversity as a fundamental property of being human. However, a bulk of the research draws from limited samples and circumscribed methods, largely excluding culture from conversations about human development. There is urgent need to find balance between global science and local reality where social justice, sustainability, and inclusion find a central place in the play between unity and diversity. Recent events have further highlighted the importance of democratic principles, multidisciplinary approaches, and international collaboration. Globalization cannot be undone, but it can be fruitfully exploited to reimagine the developmental sciences to embrace diversity and pluralism. Cultural psychology as a discipline offers a productive way forward.

In every cultural setting, language provides an essential framework within which reality is configured. Cultural ideas acquire form and are sustained through language. The social fields created through chosen words and their connected meanings effectively function as key terms in defining cultural knowledge. Motherhood is an important role in Indian society. The eventuality of becoming a mother is of vital consequence, especially for Indian women, and much cultural content revolves around this issue. Consequently, the language of motherhood is also highlighted in everyday linguistic usage, in particular through the notion of mamta. This article explores the everyday understanding of twenty men and women living in Delhi regarding the term mamta, set against the social role of motherhood in India. The findings of the study indicate a vibrant social space and personal attention dedicated to the notion of motherhood in general and mamta in particular. Predominantly, mamta was understood as 'mother's love' for her offspring—generated quite 'naturally' through bearing a child—that is heightened in situations of vulnerability and need.

There is a long history of studies of human development in different cultural groups, but studies of development that explicitly take globalization into account are more recent. Cultural practices change, but cultures have often been considered static. Studying developmental change in changing societies in dynamic global settings presents challenges for researchers. It also presents opportunities to clarify content and processes in research. For such a clarification, it is compulsory to understand how local and global phenomena have been framed in the discourse of human development, and the potential outcomes of this positioning on people's lives. In this article we lay out five key practices to guide researchers who wish to study culture and development in a globalizing world: engaging diverse groups of people within and across societies, acknowledging multiple pathways of development, attention to the cultural context, using mixed methods, and designing sustainable and relevant interventions.

Between the time this volume was conceptualized and its publication, the world has seen dramatic changes as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, changes that have directly impacted international relations and globalization. Because this issue of <i>Human Development</i> deals with insights and alternatives regarding globalization, culture, and development, the consequences of the pandemic are linked to the presentation of four specific articles based on invited addresses given at the 2019 Jean Piaget Society conference on the title topic. Beginning with this article, this volume aims to explore five themes: multiple pathways of development; the importance of understanding context for understanding development; using mixed methods; implications for interventions; and implications for how to engage people in diverse societies, even as those societies are changing.

Intro -- Making of Distinctions: Towards a Social Science of Inclusive Oppositions -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION IDENTITY AND CULTURE -- SECTION 1 ETHNIC IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES, POLITICS AND PLURALITY -- 1 TRANSFORMING ORAL NARRATIVES INTO WRITTEN DISCOURSE FOR A WIDE AUDIENCE -- 2 CULTURAL IDENTITY CHALLENGES AND GLOBALIZATION -- 3 ETHNIC IDENTITY AND POLITICAL POWER BETWEEN TRIBAL GROUPS IN KERALA, INDIA AND WESTERN BAHR, EL-GHAZAL, SOUTH SUDAN: A Comparative Analysis -- 4 GENDERED RIVER: Adivasi and Dominant Identities in the Mythological Renderings of the Thirunelli River, Wayanad, Kerala -- 5 TRIBAL WOMEN IDENTITY AND ECO-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS: A Case of Paliyan Tribes in Kerala -- 6 COMMENTARY 1: Voicing, Silencing, Ventriloquizing and Speaking "On Behalf of": Different Ways of Social Sciences -- 7 COMMENTARY 2: Reflections About Cultural and Ethnic Identities From Dynamic and Dialogical Perspectives -- SECTION 2 GENDER IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY DYNAMICS -- 8 WOMEN ACTION FOR ECOLOGY REBUILDING THE IDENTITY THROUGH AGRICULTURE -- 9 GENDER AND IDENTITY ISSUES OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS OF KERALA -- 10 PRETTY WOMEN UNDER THE VEIL OF SECRECY: Vulnerability, Violence and Gender Inequality of Female Sex Workers in Kerala -- 11 DEVELOPMENT OF IDENTITY AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN A GUJARATI COMMUNITY IN DELHI, INDIA -- 12 ABSENCE, AGONY, AND AGENCY: The Experience of Gulf Wives of Low-End Job Migrants in Kerala -- 13 COMMENTARY 3: Psycho-Cultural Explorations of Gender in Everyday Life: Gender Identity and Community Dynamics in India -- SECTION 3 CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES RELATED TO GENDER AND ETHNIC IDENTITY -- 14 FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS: A Cultural Change? -- 15 CHANGING IDENTITIES AND HEGEMONIC MASCULINITIES: A Study of Nair Women in Central Kerala.

Researching Families and Children: Culturally Appropriate Methods highlights. methodological issues that arise while conducting research on human development. in India. This compilation deals with the dynamics of transacting research in. the field, instead of providing formalized instructions on how to conduct research. This set of essays thus scores over most other books on research methodology in. this regard. Dwelling on authentic encounters in the field, the authors articulate. the various processes of interaction, while providing transparency in procedure. and practicality in approach. A

Epigraph -- Retrospection on an Irresistible Seminar -- Foreword -- Persisting Resistance as Resource for Development -- Resistance as a Scientific Concept -- The Systemic Nature of Resistance -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Editors and Contributors -- 1 Rhythms of Resistance and Existence: An Introduction -- Abstract -- Basic Assumptions -- A Cultural Psychological Perspective on Resistance -- Resistance, Meaning-Making and Everyday Life -- Approaching Resistance Through the Lens of Cultural Psychology -- India as Foreground for the Study of Resistance -- The Goals of This Volume -- References -- Cultural Productions Through Resistance -- 2 Cultural Productions Through Resistance: An Introduction to Section I -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Resistance, Subjectivity and Cultural Creativity -- The Chapters -- References -- 3 Dalit Women in India: Crafting Narratives of Success -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Dalits in Indian Society -- Reservation Policy -- The Dalit Girl Child: Women and Caste -- Constitutional Provisions for Dalit Women -- Women and Success -- Two Case Studies -- Redefining the Dalit Experience: Turning the Narrative Around -- Concluding Comments -- References -- 4 The Third Gender and Their Identity in Indian Society -- Abstract -- Who Are Hijras? -- Hijras and Indian Society -- Discrimination and the Third Gender -- The Hijra Community -- Death of a Hijra -- A Struggle for Recognition -- Other Eminent Transgenders -- Initiative of Its Kind in Tamil Nadu -- On the Street -- Concluding Comments -- References -- 5 Trajectories of Resistance and Historical Reflections -- Abstract -- Trajectories of Remembering -- Reflecting on History -- Case 1: Dominique -- Case 2: Genevieve -- Resources for Resistance -- Conclusion: Resisting Whom, Why and How? -- Acknowledgements -- References

All psychological processes - like biological and social ones - are dynamic. Phenomena of nature, society, and the human psyche are context bound, constantly changing, and variable. This handbook brings into one framework various directions of construction of methodology of the dynamic processes that exist in the social sciences