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

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521087953 ISBN 13: 9780521087957

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Many modern social scientists take issue with the traditional criteria for comparing human development in a constantly changing world. Social scientists have long focused only on what the differences among groups are, rather than asking how and why these groups differ. Comparisons in Human Development examines ways in which different disciplines have historically regarded development and provides empirical examples that take a new approach to human activity and thought. This book's distinguished contributors share the view that the study of development must consider processes that operate over time and are regulated by varying physical, biological, social, and cultural contexts.

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Book Description

Comparisons in Human Development examines how to make comparisons in the field of human development and provides empirical examples that take a comparative, multidisplinary, developmental approach to human activity and thought. 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.Contributions include essays on the theory of comparisons, methodology, examples o f comparative strategies, and commentaries on groups of chapters.

Review

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521087953
• ISBN 13: 9780521087957
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Tudge Jonathan, Shanahan Michael J., Valsiner Jaan