Individual Development and Social Change: Explanatory Analysis

Nesselroade, John R.; Von Eye, Alexander [Editor]

ISBN 10: 0125156200 / ISBN 13: 9780125156202

Published by Academic Pr, 1985

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Ex-library hardcover no dj (gray boards) in very nice condition with the usual library markings and attachments. Text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Individual Development and Social Change: Explanatory Analysis
• Publisher: Academic Pr
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0125156200
• ISBN 13: 9780125156202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 22 ounces

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Synopsis

Individual Development and Social Explanatory Analysis represents a convergence of three lines of emphasis now visible in developmental research and theory building. The three are (1) the life course as a focus for the study of development and social change, and their interrelationships; (2) the life-span orientation to the study of individual development, with its acknowledgment of the salience of contextual features for understanding development; and (3) the growth of methodological innovations that provide more appropriate and powerful ways of exploiting data gathered to describe and explain developmental change processes. The book opens with a study on how major cultural change originates and unfolds over time. This is followed by separate chapters on the use of sequential designs for explanatory analyses; evolutionary aspects of social and individual development; the concepts of the theory of causal and weak causal regressive dependence; and the concepts of age, period, and cohort from the perspective of developmental psychology. Subsequent chapters examine development and aging as lifelong processes of historical populations; the methodological integration of natural and cultural science perspectives in developmental psychology; and application of the multifaceted methodology to the mutuality of constraint between sociocultural group and individual dynamics.