The Child as Social Person

Cover......Page 1
The child as social person......Page 4
The Child as Social Person......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
A note for the reader......Page 10
1.1 Introduction......Page 12
1.2 Bronfenbrenner's model of Person±environment interaction in development......Page 17
1.3 Evolutionary psychology and socialisation......Page 29
1.4 Genetic influences, the environment, and social development......Page 36
1.5 Sociology's perspectives on the child as social person......Page 51
1.6 Socio-cultural perspectives......Page 54
1.7 Summary......Page 59
2.1 The evolved child: signals, neoteny and the uses of immaturity......Page 61
2.2 Biological bases of systems for personality, emotion regulation and socialisation......Page 62
2.3 Temperament......Page 75
2.4 The self-concept......Page 76
2.5 Emotion, social development and the development of well-being......Page 95
2.6 Children as moral persons......Page 111
2.7 Summary......Page 116
3.1 Biological foundations of the parent±child microsystem......Page 117
3.2 How parental investment functions for children......Page 122
3.3 Attachment......Page 132
3.4 Focus on parent±child interaction......Page 138
3.5 Socio-economic status and theory of family differences......Page 158
3.6 Cultural and historical differences and parenting......Page 163
3.7 Children's obligations to parents: the example of filial piety......Page 167
3.8 Summary......Page 168
4.1 Siblings......Page 170
4.2 Peers and the child as social person......Page 181
4.3 Bullying and aggression......Page 193
4.4 Gender......Page 197
4.5 Summary......Page 216
5.1 School and the child as social person......Page 217
5.2 Child development and the media......Page 234
5.3 Macrosystems......Page 242
5.4 Religion and the development of children and youth as social persons......Page 244
5.5 Cultural differences and the development of children and youth as social persons......Page 246
5.6 History......Page 250
5.7 Children and political systems......Page 254
5.8 Summary......Page 267
6.1 Children who have suffered from an absence of social support for their development......Page 269
6.2 Antisocial behaviour......Page 275
6.3 Adolescent risk taking......Page 278
6.4 Adolescent alcohol abuse......Page 281
6.5 Helping where social development is going badly......Page 282
6.6 Resilience......Page 285
7 Re¯ections......Page 299
Bibliography......Page 304
Author index......Page 388
Subject index......Page 397