The Social Child

by Campbell, Anne; Muncer, Steven

• ISBN13: 9780863778223
• ISBN10: 0863778224
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pr

Summary

Brings together controversial and conflicting positions on issues of importance to society. Considers the likely impact of rising divorce rates and single parenting, how genes inform development, whether changing sex roles have had an impact on children's social interactions, and more. For social workers, psychologists, and students.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
PART ONE: Theories	1	(110)
Something happened: Fission and fusion in developmental psychology	3	(18)
Anne Campbell
Steven Muncer
The big bang	5	(2)
My enemy's enemy: Culture and evolution	7	(5)
Beyond the family: With a little help from my friends	12	(3)
Where is the ``Social'' in the social child?	15	(6)
Evolution and development	21	(30)
Kevin MacDonald
Theoretical basics	21	(4)
Sex differences in some domain-specific mechanisms	25	(5)
Do the phenotypic contours of human development meet evolutionary expectations?	30	(4)
Evolved systems influencing the resource value of children in the peer group	34	(3)
Morality and altruism	37	(3)
Reproductive strategies: The coherence of development	40	(3)
Conclusion	43	(8)
Genes, environment, and psychological development	51	(34)
David C. Rowe
Studies of development using biological families	52	(1)
Studies of development using social categories	53	(2)
Studies of development using racial and ethnic group categories	55	(1)
The field of behaviour genetics	56	(4)
Behaviour genetic research designs	60	(5)
Limits to the strength of family environmental effects on psychological traits	65	(7)
Genetic variance in social categories	72	(4)
Genetic variance in racial and ethnic group differences	76	(3)
A look ahead: Summary and conclusions	79	(6)
Cultural influences on development	85	(26)
Gustav Jahoda
Why bother about culture?	85	(2)
Theoretical orientations	87	(3)
Infancy	90	(4)
Cognitive development	94	(5)
Anthropological studies of social development	99	(6)
Conclusion	105	(6)
PART TWO: Agents	111	(106)
Families and social development: The 21st century	113	(30)
Harry McGurk
Grace Soriano
Changing family demography	115	(2)
Work and families	117	(9)
Poverty and childhood social development	126	(1)
Divorce and childhood social development	127	(10)
Conclusions	137	(6)
The company they keep: Friendships and their developmental significance	143	(22)
Willard W. Hartup
Having friends	145	(5)
The identity of the child's friends	150	(4)
Friendship quality	154	(4)
Conclusion	158	(1)
Acknowledgements	159	(6)
Social life in the primary school: Towards a relational concept of social skills for use in the classroom	165	(24)
Peter Kutnick
Iain Manson
Classroom grouping and pedagogy	166	(1)
Social skills training (SST)	167	(6)
Developmental theory	173	(5)
Has the sociorelational programme been effective?	178	(5)
Conclusion	183	(6)
Technology, media, and social development	189	(28)
Charles Crook
Electronic media and the delivery of social representations	193	(7)
Electronic media and configurations of social life	200	(5)
Electronic media as resource within social relations	205	(3)
Electronic media and children's psychological theorising	208	(3)
Concluding comments	211	(6)
PART THREE: Substance	217	(188)
The developmental origins of social understanding	219	(30)
Dale F. Hay
Helen Demetriou
The ``micro'' level: Humans and their inner worlds	220	(15)
The ``macro'' level: Interaction, relationships, and the greater social order	235	(6)
Conclusions: Self and society	241	(8)
Children's perspective on the emotional process	249	(22)
Mark Meerum Terwogt
Hedy Stegge
The child's naive ``theory of emotion''	250	(4)
Children's understanding of the causes of emotion	254	(5)
Understanding emotional display rules	259	(2)
Coping with negative emotions	261	(4)
Knowledge and behaviour: A word of caution	265	(6)
Agency and identity: A relational approach	271	(22)
John Shotter
Evaluative knowing from within a situation	272	(3)
Our embodied, socially embedded being: Developmental social practices	275	(3)
Two stances or sensibilities: Embodied and disembodied	278	(4)
The method: Attending to ``fleeting moments'' within a practice	282	(4)
Conclusions	286	(7)
Sociomoral understanding	293	(32)
Nicholas Emler
Theories of moral development: A glance to the past	294	(2)
From socially determined standards to self-constructed insights	296	(2)
Jean Piaget and the development of social knowledge	298	(4)
Lawrence Kohlberg and the philosopher child	302	(5)
Eliot Turiel and the fundamental domains of social knowledge	307	(2)
Sociomoral understanding: Self-construction or social construction	309	(6)
Thinking or arguing: Self-control or social control?	315	(4)
Conclusions	319	(6)
Gender and the development of interpersonal orientation	325	(28)
Anne Campbell
How and why do the sexes differ?	326	(4)
The empty child: Socialisation theories	330	(3)
The thinking child: Cognitive-developmental theories	333	(3)
The adapted child: An epigenetic approach	336	(11)
Summary	347	(6)
Youth crime and antisocial behaviour	353	(40)
David P. Farrington
The nature and extent of youth crime	355	(11)
Modifiable risk factors for youth crime	366	(14)
Explaining the development of offending	380	(3)
Conclusions	383	(10)
Concluding remarks	393	(12)
Steven Muncer
Anne Campbell
The question of culture	393	(2)
The question of shared environment	395	(3)
The question of focus	398	(7)
Author index	405	(9)
Subject index	414