Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Grusec, Joan E
• Lytton, Hugh

Titel

Social Development : History, Theory, and Research

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY : Springer New York

Erscheinungsjahr

1988

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• I Historical, Theoretical, and Methodological Considerations -- 1 Historical and Theoretical Foundations -- 2 Methodology: History and Issues -- II The Foundations of Development -- 3 Genetic and Biological Bases of Social Behavior -- 4 The Origins of Social Behavior -- 5 Socialization and the Family -- 6 Widening Social Networks and Their Influences -- III The Content of Development -- 7 Social Cognition -- 8 The Development of Self-Control and the Problem of Aggression -- 9 Morality and Altruism -- 10 Sex Differences and Sex Roles -- IV Some Social Issues -- 11 Divorce and Its Aftermath -- 12 Threats to Secure Attachment -- References -- Author Index
• For many years students who took courses in social development had no text available for their use. Those of us who instructed them had to rely on assigning journal articles to be read and providing an overview and synthesis of the area in our lectures. In the last few years, the situation has changed markedly. There are now several very good textbooks that fill the void, reflecting an increasing interest in this area of research and theory. Here is one more. There are many ways to tell a story. Our book, we think, tells it differently enough to have made it worth the writing. As we began to talk, some time ago, about undertaking this project, we found we had a mutual interest in trying to present the study of social development from a historical point of view. The field has changed dramatically from its inception, and we have both been in it long enough to have witnessed first-hand a number of these changes. Modifications of theoretical orientations and the development of increasingly sophisticated and rigorous methodology have brought with them the stimulation of controversy and growth, as social developmental psychologists argued about the best ways of going about their business. Certainly the same things have happened in other areas of psychology, but the arguments seem to have been particularly vigorous in our own domain