Comparisons in Human Development

Herausgeber: Shanahan, Michael J.; Valsiner, Jaan; Tudge, Jonathan

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Produktbeschreibung

This important volume deals with the issue of how to make comparisons in the field of human development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 769g
• ISBN-13: 9780521482028
• ISBN-10: 052148202X
• Artikelnr.: 22710085

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; Part I. Metatheoretical Approaches to Developmental
Comparison: 2. Developmental comparison Lucien Winegar; 3. Developmental
concepts across disciplines Michael J. Shanahan, Jaan Valsiner and Gilbert
Gottlieb; 4. Ecological perspectives in human development: a comparison of
Gibson and Bronfenbrenner Jonathan Tudge, Jacquelyn Gray and Diane Hogan;
Part II. Paradigmatic Statements: 5. Nested comparisons in the study of
historical change and individual adaptation Michael J. Shanahan and Glen H.
Elder, Jr; 6. The value of comparisons in developmental psychology Debra
Mekos and Patricia A. Clubb; 7. Implications from developmental
cross-cultural research for the study of acculturation in Western
civilizations Beth Costes, Rona McCall and Wolfgang Schneider; Part III.
Comparisons at the Level of Data: 8. The co-development of identity, agency
and lived worlds Dorothy C. Holland and Debra G. Skinner; 9. Sociocultural
promotions constraining children's social activity: comparisons and
variability in the development of 'friendships' Paul A. Winterhoff; 10. The
everyday experiences of North American preschoolers in two cultural
communities: a cross-disciplinary and cross-level analysis Jonathan Tudge
and Sarah Putnam; Part IV. Commentaries: 11. Developmental science: a case
of the bird flapping the wing, or the wing flapping the bird?: commentary
on Winegar's chapter Jeanette A. Lawrence; 12. Conceptual transposition,
parallelism and inter-disciplinary communication: commentary on Shanahan,
Valsiner, and Gottlieb's chapter Jeanette A. Lawrence and Agnes E. Dodds;
13. The 'ecological' approach: when labels suggest similarities beyond
basic concepts in psychology Angela Branco; 14. Problems of comparison:
methodology, the art of story-telling, and implicit models Hideo Kojima;
15. The promise of comparative, longitudinal research for studies of
productive-reproductive processes in children's lives William A. Corsaro;
16. Integrating psychology into social science: a commentary on Tudge and
Putnam, and Holland and Skinner James Youniss.