Social and Personality Development - Hardcover

Shaffer, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 053420760X ISBN 13: 9780534207601

Publisher: Brooks/Cole, 1993

Synopsis

This comprehensive overview of social and personality development reflects theories, research and practical wisdom that social developmentalists have to offer. The author attempts to help students understand the processes that underlie developmental change, and illustrates that people develop in different social contexts, which helps determine who they become. The book describes and explains the processes by which unsocialized infants are integrated into the society and subculture in which they live. Though the book has a theoretical emphasis and is research-oriented, practical implications of such are integrated throughout the text. The book illustrates how the outcomes of social development depend very heavily on interactions among the social systems that children and adolescents experience.

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Review

1. Introduction. 2. Classical Theories of Social and Personality Development. 3. Recent Perspectives on Social and Personality Development. 4. Emotional Development and Temperament. 5. Establishment of Intimate Relationships and Their Implications for Future Development. 6. Development of the Self and Social Cognition. 7. Achievement. 8. Sex Differences, Gender Role Development and Sexuality. 9. Aggression and Antisocial Conduct. 10. Altruism and Moral Development. 11. The Family. 12. Extrafamilial Influences I: Television, Computers and Schooling. 13. Extrafamilial Influences II: Peers as Socialization Agents. 14. Epilogue: Putting the Pieces Together.

About the Author

David Shaffer is a professor of psychology, chair of the Social Psychology program, and past chair of the Life-Span Developmental Psychology program at the University of Georgia, where he has taught courses in human development to graduate and undergraduate students for the past 30 years. His many research articles have concerned such topics as altruism, attitudes and persuasion, moral development, sex roles and social behavior, self-disclosure, and social psychology and the law. He has also served as associate editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Bulletin, and Journal of Personality. In 1990, Dr. Shaffer received the Josiah Meigs award for Excellence in Instruction, the University of Georgia's highest instructional honor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brooks/Cole
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 053420760X
• ISBN 13: 9780534207601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 618