Comparisons in Human Development - Understanding Time and Context (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	June 2008
Editors:	Jonathan Tudge • Michael J. Shanahan • Jaan Valsiner
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	384
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-08795-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Promotions
LSN:	0-521-08795-3
Barcode:	9780521087957

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