Competence & Character Through Life (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development) - Hardcover

Colby, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226113167 ISBN 13: 9780226113166

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1998

Synopsis

In this collection, leading psychologists, sociologists and criminologists highlight the potential for positive human development in different domains. Covering the years from youth to middle age, they examine a range of social, political and moral components of "competence and character", from teenage pregnancy and life-planning skills to voting records and educational attainment in low income households. By positing the possibility of multiple pathways of development rather than a single universal sequence, the contributors view the individual as potentially advancing in a wide range of interrelated and overlapping competencies. This volume frames issues, events and longitudinal data through the lens of possibility rather than the pathology of defeat, stressing a positive approach to the conception of human potential.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226113167
• ISBN 13: 9780226113166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256