Urie Bronfenbrenner's ecological approach to studying development has transformed the ways many social and behavioral scientists approach human beings and their environments. In the research presented in this volume, the experience of change over the life course is illuminated by the simultaneous examination of person, process, context, space, and time. Among the areas explored by leaders in the field are individual differences in environmental risk, transgenerational perspectives on resiliency, nature/nurture and culture, bioecological models of intellectual development, gender differences in socialization, authoritative parenting, and turning points in adult lives.
This softcover edition is a re-release of the 1995 hardcover edition.
Contributors
Preface
—Phyllis Moen, Glen H. Elder, Jr., and Kurt Lüscher
About Urie
- Introduction
—Phyllis Moen
Part One: The Dynamics of Individual Development
Introduction to Part One
—Glen H. Elder, Jr.
- Individual Development: A Holistic, Integrated, Model
—David Magnusson - Understanding Individual Differences in Environmental-Risk Exposure
—Michael Rutter, Lorna Champion, David Quinton, Barbara Maughan, and Andrew Pickles
Part Two: Historical and Social Time
Introduction to Part Two
—Kurt Lüscher
- The Life Course Paradigm: Social Change and Individual Development
—Glen H. Elder, Jr. - Social Structure and Personality Through Time and Space
—Melvin L. Kohn - Linked Lives: A Transgenerational Approach to Resilience
—Phyllis Moen and Mary Ann Erickson - Taking Time Seriously: Social Change, Social Structure, and Human Lives
—Duane F. Alwin
Part Three: The Multiple Contexts of Human Development
Introduction to Part Three
—Kurt Lüscher
- Differentiating Among Social Contexts: By Spatial Features, Forms of Participation, and Social Contract
—Jacqueline J. Goodnow - A Bioecological Model of Intellectual Development
—Stephen J. Ceci and Helene A. Hembrooke - The Two Sexes and Their Social Systems
—Eleanor E. Maccoby - Gender, Contexts, and Turning Points in Adults' Lives
—John A. Clausen
Part Four: The Importance of Process
Introduction to Part Four
—Glen H. Elder, Jr.
- Social Ecology Over Time and Space
—Robert B. Cairns and Beverley D. Cairns - Authoritative Parenting and Adolescent Adjustment: An Ecological Journey
—Laurence Steinberg, Nancy E. Darling, and Anne C. Fletcher, in collaboration with B. Bradford Brown and Sanford M. Dornbusch - Children in Families in Communities: Risk and Intervention in the Bronfenbrenner Tradition
—Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Part Five: Reflections and New Directions
Introduction to Part Five
—Phyllis Moen
- Jobless Ghettos and the Social Outcome of Youngsters
—William Julius Wilson - Expanding the Ecology of Human Development: An Evolutionary Perspective
—Jay Belsky - Homo Interpretans: On the Relevance of Perspectives, Knowledge, and Beliefs in the Ecology of Human Development
Kurt Lüscher - The Bioecological Model From a Life Course Perspective: Reflections of a Participant Observer
—Urie Bronfenbrenner - Developmental Ecology Through Space and Time: A Future Perspective
—Urie Bronfenbrenner
Appendix: The Published Writings of Urie Bronfenbrenner
—Compiled by Kurt Lüscher and Gerri Jones
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
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