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Development of Person-context Relations (Hardcover)
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Development of Person-context Relations (Hardcover)
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Traditionally, developmental psychology has its focus on
individuals. Developmentalists aim to describe regularities in
individuals' change and development across time, to explain the
processes and mechanisms that are involved in producing change and
regularity, and eventually, to design strategies for optimization
and modification of developmental pathways. Although the role of
contexts has always been of central concern for these purposes, it
is nevertheless quite surprising to note that compared to the
effort devoted to individuals, relatively little attention has been
paid to the study of the nature and organization of their contexts.
This volume is an exploration of the idea that how we describe and
explain human development will be closely tied to our understanding
of what contexts are, how individuals and contexts become
influential for one another, what contexts do to and with
individuals, and how contexts and their influences change
themselves across time. A major theme is whether the traditional
dichotomy between individuals and their contexts may be artificial,
perhaps culturally biased, and after psychologists have adhered to
it for about a century, may have become an impediment to increasing
our understanding of developmental processes.
With this volume, the editors contribute a serious consideration
of development and systematic change to emerging models of
person-context relations, and provide suggestions about how it may
be possible to incorporate these notions in developmental research
and theorizing.
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