| Abstract: | Comments on Ceci and Papierno's article (see record 2005-01817-001) concerning advantaged and disadvantaged youth interventions. The author notes that while the article was more than welcome, the discussion was nevertheless still couched within a seriously culturally biased conceptual framework. Even though most psychologists accept this framework, it actually renders many ways of dealing with the problem of disadvantage invisible and undiscussable. The author uses an example inquiring into mothers' priorities in child rearing. Overall, the author feels that virtually all the interventions discussed by Ceci and Papierno are construed within--and designed to reward--what one might call a Western, middle-class mind-set and to reinforce its personal and social structural consequences through a self-fulfilling process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
