Comparisons in Human Development: Understanding Time and Context (Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052148202X ISBN 13: 9780521482028

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This important volume deals with the issue of how to make comparisons in the field of human development. In their comparisons of various social groups, social scientists generally focus on what the differences are, rather than elucidating how and why the groups differ. Comparisons in Human Development examines ways in which different disciplines have treated comparisons and development and provides empirical examples that take a comparative, developmental approach to human activity and thought. Contributors share the view that the study of development must be concerned with processes that operate over time and are regulated by their physical, biological, social and cultural contexts. Development is understood in systemic terms, with multidirectional influences that cross levels of analysis, including the cellular, the individual, the family, and the cultural and historical.

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"...the quality of the chapters is generally high, and they are well written and well referenced...a stimulating and fertile resource." Contemporary Psychology

Book Description

Comparisons in Human Development examines ways in which different disciplines have treated comparisons and development and provides empirical examples that take a comparative, developmental approach to human activity and thought.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052148202X
• ISBN 13: 9780521482028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 382
• Editor: Tudge Jonathan, Shanahan Michael J., Valsiner Jaan