Questions about how children grow up in their social
worlds are of enormous significance for parents,
teachers, and society at large, as well as for children
themselves. Clearly children are shaped by the social
world that surrounds them but they also shape the social
worlds that they, and those significant to them,
encounter. But exactly how does this happen, and what
can we do to ensure that it produces happy outcomes?
This book provides a critical review of the
psychological literature on the development of
personality, social cognition, social skills, social
relations and social outcomes from birth to early
adulthood. It uses Bronfenbrenner's model of the
development of the person and up-to-date evidence to
analyse normal and abnormal social development,
prosocial and antisocial behaviour, within and across
cultures. As well as outlining the theory, the book
addresses applied issues such as delinquency, school
failure, and social exclusion.Using a coherent
theoretical structure, The Child as Social Person
examines material from across the biological and social
sciences to present an integrated account of what we do
and do not know about the development of the child as a
social actor. The Child as Social Person provides an
integrated overview of the exciting field of
developmental social psychology, and as such will be
essential reading for advanced undergraduate students in
psychology, education and social work, as well as
postgraduates and researchers in these
disciplines. |
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