Robert A. LeVine

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Robert A. LeVine

Robert Alan LeVine (born March 27, 1932 in New York City ) is an American educational scientist, anthropologist and social psychologist .

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He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. received his doctorate and taught there until his retirement as Roy E. Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

He conducted field research with the Bantu ethnic group of the Gusii ( Kisii (people) ) in Kenya (1975), in Nigeria, Mexico, Japan, as well as in New Guinea, Tibet or Nepal. His classic works today include Nyansongo and Culture, Behavior and Personality . His research interests include upbringing and youth development and the impact of reading skills and education on maternal behavior in various cultural contexts. He conducts personal ethnography and studies the relationship between psychoanalysis and anthropology.

From 1980 to 1983 he was chairman of the Social Science Research Council . He has also been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1989 .

LeVine has worked on around twelve books to date and has written over a hundred specialist articles.

Awards

In 1997 he was honored by the Society for Psychological Anthropology, and in 2001 by the American Educational Research Association . In 2013 Robert LeVine was awarded the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology .

Publications

Africa
  • Dreams and Deeds. Achievement Motivation in Nigeria. University of Chicago Press, Chicago a. a. 1966.
  • Robert A. Levine, Barbara B. LeVine: Nyansongo: a Gusii Community in Kenya. Wiley, New York 1966.
  • Sarah LeVine, Robert A. LeVine (collaboration): Mothers and wives: Gusii Women of East Africa. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1979, ISBN 0-226-47548-4 .
  • Robert A. LeVine, Donald T. Campbell: Gusii of Kenya. Human Relations Area Files, New Haven, Connecticut (HRAFlex Books / FL8-001: Ethnocentrism Series).
  • Child Care and Culture. Lessons from Africa. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 1994, ISBN 0-521-33171-4 .
Comparative studies
  • Robert A. LeVine, Donald T. Campbell: Ethnocentrism. Theories of Conflict, Ethnic Attitudes, and Group Behavior. Wiley, New York 1972, ISBN 0-471-53117-0 .
  • Culture, Behavior and Personality. An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Psychosocial Adaptation. Hutchinson, London 1973, ISBN 0-09-117590-9 .
  • Robert A. LeVine, Merry I. White: Human conditions. The Cultural Basis of Educational Development. Rutledge & Kegan Paul, New York 1986,
Psychological anthropology
  • Hidetada Shimizu, Robert A. LeVine: Japanese Frames of Mind. Cultural Perspective on Human Development. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 2001, ISBN 0-521-78159-0 .
  • Childhood Socialization. Comparative Studies of Parenting, Learning and Educational Change. Eurospan / Comparative Education Research Center, London 2003, ISBN 962-8093-61-4 .
  • Robert A. LeVine (Ed.): Anthropology and Child Development. A cross-cultural reader. Blackwell, Malden, Mass. 2008, ISBN 978-0-631-22975-9 .
  • Robert A. LeVine (Ed.): Psychological Anthropology. A Reader on Self in Culture. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, et al. a. 2010, ISBN 978-1-405-10575-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME LeVine, Robert A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LeVine, Robert Alan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American educationalist, anthropologist, and social psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City