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Comparisons in Human Development
Understanding Time and Context

Part of Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development

Editors:
Jonathan Tudge, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Michael J. Shanahan, Pennsylvania State University
Jaan Valsiner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Lucien Winegar, Michael J. Shanahan, Jaan Valsiner, Gilbert Gottlieb, Jonathan Tudge, Jacquelyn Gray, Diane Hogan, Glen H. Elder, Jr, Debra Mekos, Patricia A. Clubb, Beth-Costes, Rona McCall, Wolfgang Schneider, Dorothy C. Holland, Debra G. Skinner, Paul A. Winterhoff, Sarah Putnam, Jeanette A. Lawrence, Agnes E. Dodds, Angela Branco, Hideo Kojima, William A. Corsaro, James Youniss

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Date Published: December 2008
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521087957

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This important volume deals with the issue of how to make comparisons in the field of human development. In their comparisons of various social groups, social scientists generally focus on what the differences are, rather than elucidating how and why the groups differ. Comparisons in Human Development examines ways in which different disciplines have treated comparisons and development and provides empirical examples that take a comparative, developmental approach to human activity and thought. Contributors share the view that the study of development must be concerned with processes that operate over time and are regulated by their physical, biological, social and cultural contexts. 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.
- An interdisciplinary approach to the issue of how to compare human development across time and context
- Theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches to the issue of comparisons in human development
- Commentaries from leading scholars from the international community
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- Date Published: December 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521087957
- length: 384 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.56kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Part I. Metatheoretical Approaches to Developmental Comparison:
2. Developmental comparison Lucien Winegar
3. Developmental concepts across disciplines Michael J. Shanahan, Jaan Valsiner and Gilbert Gottlieb
4. Ecological perspectives in human development: a comparison of Gibson and Bronfenbrenner Jonathan Tudge, Jacquelyn Gray and Diane Hogan
Part II. Paradigmatic Statements:
5. Nested comparisons in the study of historical change and individual adaptation Michael J. Shanahan and Glen H. Elder, Jr
6. The value of comparisons in developmental psychology Debra Mekos and Patricia A. Clubb
7. Implications from developmental cross-cultural research for the study of acculturation in Western civilizations Beth Costes, Rona McCall and Wolfgang Schneider
Part III. Comparisons at the Level of Data:
8. The co-development of identity, agency and lived worlds Dorothy C. Holland and Debra G. Skinner
9. Sociocultural promotions constraining children's social activity: comparisons and variability in the development of 'friendships' Paul A. Winterhoff
10. The everyday experiences of North American preschoolers in two cultural communities: a cross-disciplinary and cross-level analysis Jonathan Tudge and Sarah Putnam
Part IV. Commentaries:
11. Developmental science: a case of the bird flapping the wing, or the wing flapping the bird?: commentary on Winegar's chapter Jeanette A. Lawrence
12. Conceptual transposition, parallelism and inter-disciplinary communication: commentary on Shanahan, Valsiner, and Gottlieb's chapter Jeanette A. Lawrence and Agnes E. Dodds
13. The 'ecological' approach: when labels suggest similarities beyond basic concepts in psychology Angela Branco
14. Problems of comparison: methodology, the art of story-telling, and implicit models Hideo Kojima
15. The promise of comparative, longitudinal research for studies of productive-reproductive processes in children's lives William A. Corsaro
16. Integrating psychology into social science: a commentary on Tudge and Putnam, and Holland and Skinner James Youniss.
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Editors
Jonathan Tudge, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Michael J. Shanahan, Pennsylvania State University
Jaan Valsiner, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Contributors
Lucien Winegar, Michael J. Shanahan, Jaan Valsiner, Gilbert Gottlieb, Jonathan Tudge, Jacquelyn Gray, Diane Hogan, Glen H. Elder, Jr, Debra Mekos, Patricia A. Clubb, Beth-Costes, Rona McCall, Wolfgang Schneider, Dorothy C. Holland, Debra G. Skinner, Paul A. Winterhoff, Sarah Putnam, Jeanette A. Lawrence, Agnes E. Dodds, Angela Branco, Hideo Kojima, William A. Corsaro, James Youniss