Children and Money – Cultural Developmental Psychology of Pocket Money Noboru

Children and MoneyCultural Developmental Psychology of Pocket Money\nAuthor(s): Takahashi Noboru, Yamamoto Toshiya\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Information Age Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781641139540, 978-1641139540\nSynopsis\nIn the 'Pocket Money Project,' researchers from four countries, Japan, Korea, China, and Vietnam collaborated and studied how children in those four countries were involved with money, combining various research methods and approaches. What our project tries to present throughout this book is that money is not only just a tool of exchange in the context of the market economy; but, it also serves as a tool to mediate human relationships in individual cultures; and the tool is used and mediated by norms. The structure of the norms differs among cultures, and the same action has different meanings; thus, when the structure of norms in a culture is identified, the meaning of an action in the culture becomes clear.\n\nThe.