Social and environmental issues

摘要: This two-volume work levels both criticism and challenge to traditional developmental psychology. For too long, psychologists have been studying individuals as if they developed in a sociocultural vacuum. As began study the individual's development more broadly, considered impact of number other factors physical social environment: early education, differences, mass communication, alternative living arrangements, medical care-to name but few. Volume I, Historical Cultural Issues, examines problems behavioral from historical, political, theoretical, cultural points view. A content areas already familiar are discussed: Piaget's theory, perceptual development, socialization, language acquisition. In addition, topics relatively unfamiliar American included: contribution European developmentalists such William Clara Stern, Alfred Binet, Eduard Spranger; an introduction recent Soviet theory. II, Social Environmental considers effects changes environmental conditions upon individual development. The expanding technology communications media, importance nutrition, design playgrounds spaces for growing children among examined, organizations interactions within small groups, focusing preschool interaction family, personality throughout life.