Recent evolution of the human family. Review of Parenting Across the Life Span: Biosocial Dimensions, edited by Jane B. Lancaster, Jeanne Altmann, Alice S. Rossi, and Lonnie R. Sherrod. New York, Aldine de Gruyter, 1987, 474 pp, $45.95
✍ Scribed by Claud A. Bramblett
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 158 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0275-2565
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✦ Synopsis
This is the second volume of a publication series initiated by the Social Science Research Council's Committee on Biosocial Perspectives on Parent Behavior and Offspring Development. As the titles indicate, the organizing concept is the functional unity of biological, sociological, and environmental components of parenting. The purpose of the book is to encourage other biologists and social scientists to adopt a similar biosocial perspective in their work, and in the opening chapter they propose to treat four major themes about parenting to establish a biosocial framework. These themes are not the organization of the volume's chapters, but they do summarize the volume's contents and focus so vividly that they merit recognition.