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When Nurture Becomes Nature: Ethnocentrism in Studies of HumanDevelopment
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2010)
  • David F. Lancy, Utah State University
Abstract

This commentary will extend the territory claimed in the target article by identifying several other areas in the social sciences where findings from the WEIRD population have been over-generalized. An argument is made that the root problem is the ethnocentrism of scholars, textbook authors, and social commentators, which leads them to take their own cultural values as the norm.

Keywords
  • nurture,
  • nature,
  • ethnocentrism,
  • studies,
  • human development
Publication Date
January 1, 2010
Citation Information
Lancy, D. F. 2010. When nurture becomes nature: Ethnocentrism in studies of human development. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33, 99-100.