Publications: 1990-1999 - Thomas S. Weisner, Ph. D.

1999Weisner, T.S. (1999). Values that matter. Anthropology Newsletter, May. pp. 1, 4-5.Weisner, T.S. et al. (1999). Understanding better the lives of poor families: Ethnographic and survey studies of the New Hope experiment. Poverty Newsletter Vol. 1, #3.Begay, C., .Roberts, R.N., Weisner, T.S., & C. Matheson. (1999). Indigenous and informal systems of support. Navajo families who have children with disabilities. In T. V. Fletcher & C. S. Bos (Eds.). Helping individuals with disabilities and their families. Mexican and U.S. perspectives. The Bilingual Review XXIV (1 & 2). Tempe, AZ:Bilingual Review/Press, pp. 79-94.Raghavan, C., Weisner, T.S., & D. Patel. (1999). The adaptive project of parenting: South Asian families with children with developmental delays. Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities 34 (3), 281-292.Gallimore, R., Bernheimer, L.P., & T.S. Weisner. (1999). Family life is more than managing crisis: Broadening the agenda of research on families adapting to childhood disability. In Gallimore, R., Bernheimer, L. P., MacMillan, D. L., Speece, D. L., & S. Vaughn (Eds.). Developmental Perspectives on children with high-incidence disabilities. Mahwah, NJ: LEA Press, pp. 55-80.
1998Keogh, B.K., Bernheimer, L. P., Gallimore, R.G., & T.S. Weisner. (1998). Child and family outcomes over time: A longitudinal perspective on developmental delays. In M. Lewis & C. Feiring (Eds)., Families, risks, and competence. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates, pp. 269-287.Weisner, T.S. & L. P. Bernheimer. (1998). “Children of the 1960s at Midlife: Generational Identity and the Family Adaptive Project.” In R. Shweder (Ed.). Welcome to middle age! (And Other Cultural Fictions). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 211-257.Schneider, P., Weisner, T.S., & R. Gallimore.(1998). Family and child factors contributing to “successful storytime interactions” with children with developmental delays. Developmental Disabilities Bulletin 25 (2):32-49.Weisner, T.S. (1998). Human development, child well-being, and the cultural project of development. In D. Sharma & K. Fischer (Eds.). Socio-Emotional development across cultures. New directions in child development, No. 81, Fall. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, pp. 69-85.
1997Weisner, T.S. (1997). The ecocultural project of human development: Why ethnography and its findings matter. Ethos 25(2):177-190.Bradley, C., & T.S. Weisner. (1997). Introduction: Crisis in the African family. In Weisner, T.S., Bradley, C., & P. Kilbride. (Eds.) (1997). African families and the crisis of social change. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press/Bergin & Garvey, pp. xix-xxxii.Weisner, T.S. (1997). Support for children and the African family crisis. In Weisner, T.S., Bradley, C., & P. Kilbride. (Eds.) (1997). African families and the crisis of social change. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press/Bergin & Garvey, pp. 20-44.Keogh, B.K., Gallimore, R.G., & T.S. Weisner. (1997). A sociocultural perspective on learning and learning disabilities. Learning Disabilities Research and Practice 12(2):107-113.Weisner, T. S. (1997). Is culture the most important influence in human development? [Review of the book Child Care and Culture. Lessons from Africa, by R. LeVine, S. Dixon, S. LeVine, A. Richman, P. H. Leiderman, C. H. Keefer, and T. B. Brazelton (Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.]. Reviewed in Contemporary Psychology.
1996Ryan, G. & T.S. Weisner. (1996). Analyzing words in brief descriptions: Fathers and mothers describe their children. Cultural Anthropology Methods Journal 8(3):13-16. [Also reprinted as, “Content analysis of words in brief descriptions: How mothers and fathers describe their children” In de Munck, V. & E. Sobo (Eds.). (1998). Using methods in the field. A practical introduction and casebook, Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, pp. 57-68.Weisner, T.S. (1996). The 5 to 7 transition as an ecocultural project. In Sameroff, A., & M. Haith (Eds.). The five to seven year shift: The age of reason and responsibility. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 295-326.Gallimore, R., Coots, J. J., Weisner, T. S., Garnier, H. & G. Guthrie. (1996). Family Responses to Children with Early Developmental Delays II: Accommodation Intensity and Activity in Early and Middle Childhood. American Journal of Mental Retardation 101(3):215-232.Weisner, T.S. (1996). Why ethnography should be the most important method in the study of human development. In Jessor, R., Colby, A., & R. Shweder (Eds.). Ethnography and human development. Context and meaning in social inquiry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 305-324.Weisner, T. S. (1996). Contextual approaches (not mere contextualizing) in human development. [Review of Winegar, L., & J. Valsiner (Eds.) Children’s development within social context (Volume 1, Metatheory and theory & Vol. 2, Research & Methodology). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.] Contemporary Psychology 41(10):1009-1010.Weisner, T.S., Matheson, C., & L. Bernheimer. (1996). American cultural models of early influence and parent recognition of developmental delays: Is earlier always better than later? In Harkness,S., Super, C. M., & R. New (Eds.) Parents’ cultural belief systems. New York: Guilford Press, pp. 496-531.Weisner, T.S. (1996). Review of Lindenbaum, S., & M. Lock (Eds.). Knowledge, power, and practice: The Anthropology of medicine and everyday life. Berkeley: University of California Press. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, pp. 121-122.
1994Weisner, T. S . (1994). The crisis for families and children in Africa: Change in shared social support for children. Health Matrix: Journal of Law/Medicine. 4(1):1-29. Weisner, T.S., & R.G. Gallimore. (1994). Ecocultural studies of families adapting to childhood developmental delays: Unique features, defining differences, and applied implications. In Leskinen, M., (Ed.) Family in focus. New perspectives on early childhood special education. Jyvaskyla, Finland: University of Jyvaskyla, pp. 11-25.Nihira, K., Weisner, T., & L. Bernheimer. (1994). Ecocultural assessment in families of children with developmentally delays: construct and concurrent validities. American Journal of Mental Retardation. 98(5):551-566. Weisner, T., Garnier, H., & J. Louckly. (1994). Domestic tasks, gender egalitarian values, and children’s gender typing in conventional and nonconventional families. Sex Roles. 30(1):23-54.
1993Gallimore, R., Goldenberg, C., & T. Weisner. (1993). The social construction and subjective reality of activity settings: Implications for community psychology. American Journal of Community Psychology 21(4):537-559. Gallimore, R., Weisner, T.S., Guthrie, D., Bernheimer, L., & K. Nihira. (1993). Family response to young children with developmental delays: accommodation activity in ecological and cultural context. American Journal of Mental Retardation 98(2):185-206 Keogh, B. & T.S. Weisner. (1993.) An ecocultural perspective on risk and protective factors in children’s development: Implications for learning disabilities. Learning Disabilities Research and Practice 8(1):3-10. Weisner, T.S. (1993.) Siblings in cultural place: ethnographic and ecocultural perspectives on siblings of developmentally delayed children. In Stoneman, Z., & P. Berman (Eds.) Siblings of individuals with mental retardation, physical disabilities, and chronic illness. Baltimore: Brooks., pp. 51-83. Weisner, T.S. (1993.) Overview: Sibling similarity and difference in different cultures. In Nuckolls,C., (Ed.) Siblings in South Asia. Brothers and sisters in cultural context. New York: Guilford Press., pp. 1-17.
1992Weisner, T. S., & H. Garnier. (1992). Nonconventional family lifestyles and school achievement: A 12-year longitudinal study. American Educational Research Journal 29(3):605-632.
1991Weisner, T.S., Beizer, L. & L. Stolze. (1991). Religion and the families of developmentally delayed children. American Journal of Mental Retardation 95(6):647-662.
1990Bernheimer, L. P., Gallimore, R., & T.S. Weisner. (1990). Ecocultural Theory as a Context for the Individual Family Service Plan. Journal of Early Intervention. 14 (3): 219-233.Weisner, T.S., & J. Wilson-Mitchell. (1990). Nonconventional family lifestyles and sex typing in six year olds. Child Development 61(6):1915-1933.Weisner, T.S. (1990). Review of the book Living with difference. Families with dwarf children, by Joan Ablon. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 4(4):479-481.Weisner, T.S. (1990). Review of the book Preschools in three cultures. Japan, China, and the United States, by J. Tobin, D. Wu, & D. Davidson. Child Development Abstracts 64(3):85-86.Weisner, T.S. (1990). Review of the book Childhood in crossroads: Cognition and society in South Africa, by Pamela Reynolds. Africa.