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Buck-Morss, Susan – Human Development, 1975
The existence of a time lag discovered in the cross-cultural application of Piagetian tests may result from a socio-economic bias in Piaget's theory. Abstract, formal cognition may reflect a particular social structure, embodying the principles of exchange value, reification, and alienation which govern production and exchange in the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cross Cultural Studies