Human Development: A Cultural Approach - Hardcover

Jensen Arnett, Jeffery

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0133792420 ISBN 13: 9780133792423

Publisher: Pearson, 2015

Synopsis

Key Benefit
Human Development: A Cultural Approach, Second Edition leads readers to examine all stages of development through the engaging lens of culture. The first author to take a wholly cultural approach to human development, Jeffrey Arnett integrates cross-cultural examples throughout the narrative to reveal the impact of cultural factors both in the US and around the world.

Key Topics
A Cultural Approach to Human Development; Genetics and Prenatal Development; Birth and the Newborn Child; Infancy; Toddlerhood; Early Childhood; Middle Childhood; Adolescence; Emerging Adulthood; Young Adulthood; Middle Adulthood; Late Adulthood; Death and Afterlife Beliefs

Market
Readers seeking a culturally focused overview of human development

About this title

About the Author

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology in 1986 from the University of Virginia, and did three years of postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago. From 1992-1998 he was Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Missouri where he taught a 300-student lifespan development course every semester. From 1998-2005 he was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development at the University of Maryland. In the fall of 2005 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

His primary scholarly interest for the past 10 years has been in emerging adulthood. He coined the term, and has conducted research on emerging adults concerning a wide variety of topics, including risk behavior (especially cigarette smoking) and media use (especially music), involving several different ethnic groups in American society. He is the editor of the Journal of Adolescent Research, and is on the Editorial Board of four other journals. He was Editor-In-Chief for two encyclopedias published in 2007, the International Encyclopedia of Adolescence (Routledge, two volumes) and the Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media (Sage, two volumes). He has published many theoretical and research papers on emerging adulthood in peer-reviewed journals, as well as the books Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach (2010, 4th edition, Pearson); Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties (2004, Oxford University Press); and Metalheads: Heavy Metal Music and Adolescent Alienation (1996, Westview Press). He has also edited (with Jennifer Tanner) the book Emerging Adults in America: Coming of Age in the 21st Century, published in 2006 by APA Books.

He lives in Worcester, Massachusetts with his wife Lene Jensen and their nine-year-old twins, Miles and Paris. For more information on Dr. Arnett and his research, see www.jeffreyarnett.com.  

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0133792420
• ISBN 13: 9780133792423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 800