Persons in Context : Developmental Processes (Hardcover)

Preface; 1. Development in context: research perspectives Niall Bolger, Avshalom Caspi, Geraldine Downey and Martha Moorehouse; 2. Interacting systems in human development. Research paradigms: present and future Urie Bronfenbrenner; 3. Children, families, and communities: ways of viewing their relationships to each other Jacqueline J. Goodnow; 4. Human development and social change: an emerging perspective on the life course Glen H. Elder, Jr. and Avshalom Caspi; 5. Family process: loops,cess: loops, levels and linkages Gerald R. Patterson; 6. On the constructive role of problem behaviour in adolescence Rainer K. Silbereisen and Peter Noack; 7. The sociogenesis of self concepts Robert B. Cairns and Beverly D. Cairns; 8. Putting persons back into the context Daryl J. Bem; 9. How genotypes and environments combine: development and individual differences Sandra Scarr; Author index; Subject index.