Persons in Context: Developmental Processes (Human Development in Cultural and Historical Contexts)

✍ Scribed by Niall Bolger (editor), Avshalom Caspi (editor), Geraldine Downey (editor), Martha Moorehouse (editor)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 274
Series: Human Development in Cultural and Historical Contexts
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume brings together essays by a group of distinguished researchers that assess our progress in understanding the processes linking persons and contexts in the course of development. The contributors represent various disciplines, including developmental, personality, and clinical psychology; behavioral genetics; and sociology. They also are identified with a wide range of methodological approaches, including longitudinal studies, laboratory experiments, field observations, and the sequential analysis of social interactions.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Contributors......Page 13
1 - Development in context: research perspectives......Page 16
2 - Interacting systems in human development Research......Page 40
3 - Children, families, and communities: ways of viewing their relationships to each other......Page 65
4 - Human development and social change: an emerging perspective on the life course......Page 92
5 - Family process: loops, levels, and linkages......Page 129
6 - On the constructive role of problem behavior in adolescence......Page 167
7 - The sociogenesis of self concepts......Page 196
8 - Putting persons back into the context......Page 218
9 - How genotypes and environments combine: development and individual differences......Page 232
Author index......Page 260
Subject index......Page 266

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