Social Life and Social Knowledge: Toward a Process Account of Development

by Mueller; Ulrich

• ISBN13: 9780805860689
• ISBN10: 0805860681
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-10
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

In this new volume, leading researchers provide state-of-the-art perspectives on how social interaction influences the development of knowledge. The book integrates approaches from a variety of disciplines including developmental psychology, psychopathology, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary biology, and primatology. It reviews the nature and type of interactions that promote development as well as the conceptual frameworks used to explain the relation between individuals and groups. Social Life and Social Knowledgecomprehensively addresses conceptual questions central to understanding human life and development: Is the human form of social life reducible to biological processes? What psychological abilities constitute the specifically human form of social life? What are the processes and contexts within which these abilities develop? How should we conceptualize the links between social life and the development of thought, and how do individuals and society contribute to these processes? The book is intended for philosophers, primatologists, anthropologists, biologists, sociologists, and developmental and educational psychologists interested in social development, social cognition, and developmental psychopathology. It also serves as a resource for courses in social development and those that focus on the intersection between cognition, development, and culture.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Developmental Relations between Forms of Social Interaction and Forms of Thought: An Introduction	p. 1
Are You Social? The Ontological and Developmental Emergence of the Person	p. 17
Perspectives and Persons: Ontological, Constitutive Possibilities	p. 43
Cultural Learning and Cultural Creation	p. 65
In the Beginning Is Relation...And Then What?	p. 103
Experiencing Others: A Second-Person Approach to Other-Awareness	p. 123
Social Knowledge as Social Skill: An Action Based View of Social Understanding	p. 145
Relationships and Children's Discovery of the Mind	p. 171
The Constructive Role of Asymmetry in Social Interaction	p. 183
Selves and Identities in the Making: The Study of Microgenetic Processes in Interactive Practices	p. 205
The Anthropology of Moral Development	p. 225
Social Decisions, Social Interactions, and the Coordination of Diverse Judgments	p. 255
Author Index	p. 277
Subject Index	p. 285
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