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Comparisons in human development : understanding time and context

Title: Comparisons in human development : understanding time and context / edited by Jonathan Tudge, Michael J. Shanahan, Jaan Valsiner.
Publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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x, 368 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

This important volume deals with the challenges posed by comparative strategies in human development, challenges that reflect the dynamic and multilevel nature of development. Comparative strategies represent basic heuristic tools for studying the change and stability of both people and their environments. Yet developmentalists make comparisons that focus on the magnitude of differences between groups (based, for example, on age or gender), often neglecting issues of variability and process. Comparisons in Human Development examines the problems and promise of comparisons in the study of development and provides empirical examples of diverse comparative approaches to human activity and thought.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in social and emotional development

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in social and emotional development

Subject

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies
Longitudinal studies

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Comparisons in human development : to begin a conversation / Jonathan Tudge, Michael J. Shanahan, Jaan Valsiner -- Developmental research and comparative perspectives : applications to developmental science / Lucien T. Winegar -- Developmental concepts across disciplines / Michael J. Shanahan, Jaan Valsiner, Gilbert Gottlieb -- Ecological perspectives in human development : a comparison of Gibson and Bronfenbrenner / Jonathan Tudge, Jacquelyn T. Gray, Diane M. Hogan -- Nested comparisons in the study of historical change and individual adaptation / Michael J. Shanahan, Glen H. Elder, Jr. -- The value of comparisons in developmental psychology / Debra Mekos, Patricia A. Clubb -- Implications from developmental cross-cultural research for the study of acculturation in Western civilizations / Beth Kurtz-Costes, Rona McCall, Wolfgang Schneider -- The co-development of identity, agency, and lived worlds / Dorothy C. Holland, Debra G. Skinner -- Sociocultural promotions constraining children's social activity : comparisons and variability in the development of friendships / Paul A. Winterhoff -- The everyday experiences of North American preschoolers in two cultural communities : a cross-disciplinary and cross-level analysis / Jonathan Tudge, Sarah E. Putnam -- Developmental science : a case of the bird flapping its wings or the wings flapping the bird? / Jeanette A. Lawrence -- Conceptual transposition, parallelism, and interdisciplinary communication / Jeanette A. Lawrence, Agnes E. Dodds -- The "ecological" approach : when labels suggest similarities beyond shared basic concepts in psychology / Angela Branco -- Problems of comparison : methodology, the art of storytelling, and implicit models / Hideo Kojima -- The promise of comparative, longitudinal research for studies of productive-reproductive processes in children's lives / William A. Corsaro -- Integrating psychology into social science / James Youniss.

ISBN

9780521482028
052148202X
9780521087957
0521087953
9780511720345 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

96012287

OCLC

ocm34513429
34513429
SCSB-2102486

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library