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Beginnings
Biological Evolutionary Perspective
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Child's Ongoing Behaviour
Childhood Gender Roles
Childhood Social Development
Child’s Ongoing Behaviour
cognitive development
Conflicts of interest
cultural influences
customs
Depressive Symptomatology
Desiderata
developmental psychology
Dialectics
Direction of effects
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Feminine Boys
Friendship Experience
gender identity formation
history
Intergroup Relations Research
JIEs
Language socialisation
Mother Daughter Interactions
Negative Self-feelings
parent child relationships
Peak Height Velocity
peer interaction
Physiological considerations
Play Frame
Pretend Play
Pubertal Events
Pubertal Processes
Rules
Secondary Sexual Characteristic Development
Self-feelings
Sex Segregated Groups
Sex segregation
social competence acquisition in children
Social Pretend Play
Societal Thinking
Traditions
Vice Versa
Violated
Young Adolescent
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780863772757
- Weight: 432g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 May 1992
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book provides an account of research in action and debate in progress in a selection of areas of childhood social development where significant progress is underway. The chapters are written by an eminent group of British and American developmental psychologists each of whom has made primary contributions to research in the areas covered in the volume. The contributors were invited to reflect upon the current scene in social developmental research and to develop their own distinctive viewpoint and contribution to the field. The book addresses issues in social development from infancy to adolescence. The topics examined include: interactions between biological and social factors in social development; sex role development; the development of friendships; the role of peer interaction in social and cognitive development; and the influence of cultural artifacts in the social and cognitive development of children. Although each chapter is concerned with a different aspect of social development, there are a number of themes that recur throughout the volume. One concerns the nature of social development: the acquisition of social understanding and the development of social skills are not individual achievements of children reared in isolation. Rather, they are the outcome of social processes in which the developing child engages, sometimes in an unequal partnership with experienced adults; at other times in more equal partnership with peers and playmates. In both cases the development change is a constructive outcome. A second recurrent theme is a concern for developmental researchers to take fuller account than they may traditionally have done of the nature of the cultural settings in which social development occurs. Different cultures have different customs and artifacts, and these can constrain development in different ways. This issue is considered throughout the book and is the specific focus of the final chapter.
Harry McGurk
