Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
Social changes, including womenâs entry into the labour force and higher rates of divorce and remarriage, have dramatically altered family life and raised complex questions about how individuals develop in the ever changing contexts of family, community and society. The goal of this volume is to enhance our understanding of human development in an evolving social context. Persons in Context: Developmental Processes presents advances in theory and research on two central topics: how environments influence individuals in the course of development and how individuals select and shape the very environments that influence their development.
Synopsis
The goal of this volume is to enhance our understanding of human development in an evolving social context.
Table of Contents
Preface; Contributors; 1. Development in context: research perspectives Niall Bolger, Avshalom Caspi, Geraldine Downey and Martha Moorehouse; 2. Interacting systems in human development. Research paradigms: present and future Urie Bronfenbrenner; 3. Children, families and communities: ways of viewing their relationships to each other Jacqueline J. Goodnow; 4. Human development and social change: an emerging perspective on the life course Glen H. Elder Jr. and Avshalom Caspi; 5. Family process: loops, levels and linkages Gerald R. Patterson; 6. On the constructive role of problem behaviour in adolescence Rainer K. Silbereisen and Peter Noack; 7. The sociogenesis of self concepts Robert B. Cairns and Beverly D. Cairns; 8. Putting persons back into the context Daryl J. Bem; 9. How genotypes and environments combine: development and individual differences Sandra Scarr; Author index; Subject index.