Development, family and adulthood. Insights from a Sociocultural perspective in Psychology

Abstract

This essay aims to outline a theoretical framework that shelters what we are conceiving as a reality to be clarified and that requires investigation, that is, parent-child relationships with adult daughters and sons. The theoretical approach from which we will address these issues is sociocultural psychology, heir to the approaches of the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky. We start from this approach as an interdisciplinary company in dialogue with disciplines such as sociology, social anthropology and linguistics, concerned with problematizing and addressing various psychological processes taking into account their social, cultural and historical specificity. This allows working from a development perspective that assumes it as a continuous, dynamic and indeterminate process in the different areas of participation, such as the family, where relationships, learning and participation in various practices are considered in a future that implies become a certain type of person. This is how we come to questions that we consider key to understanding how relationships between fathers and daughters and adult sons are developing, an issue that has been largely hidden from psychological research for some years.