Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course - Softcover

Hutchison, Elizabeth D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412941261 ISBN 13: 9781412941266

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2007

Synopsis

Organized around time, the Third Edition of Dimensions of Human Behavior: The Changing Life Course helps students understand the relationship between time and human behavior. Using a life course perspective, author Elizabeth D. Hutchison shows how the multiple dimensions of person and environment work together with dimensions of time to produce patterns in unique life course journeys. The Third Edition is updated and revised to respond to the rapidity of changes in complex societies.

New to the Third Edition

Examines our increasing global interdependence: The human life course is placed in global context.

Recognizes scientific advancements: Advances in neuroscience have been incorporated throughout the chapters.

Emphasizes group-based diversity: More content has been added on the effects of gender, race, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, and disability on life course trajectories.

Reorganizes family dynamics: Greater attention has been given to the role of fathers.

Reflects contemporary issues: New case studies, exhibits, and Web resources have been added to provide the most up-to-date information.

About this title

About the Author

Elizabeth D. Hutchison received her MSW from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD from the University at Albany, State University of New York. She was on the faculty in the social work department at Elms College from 1980 to 1987 and was chair of the department from 1982 to 1987. She was on the faculty in the School of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University from 1987 to 2009, where she taught courses in human behavior and the social environment, social work and social justice, and child and family policy; she also served as field practicum liaison. She has been a social worker in health, mental health, aging, and child and family welfare settings and engaged in volunteer work with incarcerated women and environmental justice for farm workers in the Coachella Valley of California. She is committed to providing social workers with comprehensive, current, and useful frameworks for thinking about human behavior. Her other research interests focus on child and family welfare. She lives in Reno, Nevada, where she enjoys hiking around Lake Tahoe and being a hands-on grandmother to two humans and one dog. She collaborates with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada on local social, racial, economic, and environmental justice issues.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1412941261
• ISBN 13: 9781412941266
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 624