Individual development and social change : explanatory analysis /

Individual Development and Social Change: Explanatory Analysis represents a convergence of three lines of emphasis now visible in developmental research and theory building. The three are (1) the life course as a focus for the study of development and social change, and their interrelationships; (2)...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nesselroade, John R., Eye, Alexander von
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Orlando : Academic Press, �1985.
Temas:
Developmental psychology > Methodology.
Social change > Methodology.
Social change.
Developmental psychology.
Human Development
Models, Psychological
Social Change
Psychologie du d�eveloppement.
Changement social.
Psychologie du d�eveloppement > M�ethodologie.
Psychologie > M�ethodes de simulation.
Social change
Developmental psychology
Developmental psychology > Methodology
Social change > Methodology
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Individual Development and Social Change:Explanatory Analysis; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Evolution and Innovation in Sociocultural Systems: A Punctuated Equilibria Model; I. Introduction; II. The Contributions and Limitations of a Darwinian Approach to Culture Change; III. Paradigm Shift: The Punctuated Equilibria Model; IV. A New Paradigm of Sociocultural Innovation; V. Examples of Punctuated Equilibria in Techno-economic Change; Acknowledgments; References
  • Chapter 2. Sequential Strategies as Quasi-experimental Designs: Possibilities and Limitations in Explanatory AnalysisI. Introduction; II. Models of Individual Development and Social Change in the Context of Sequential Strategies; III. Empirical Applications of Sequential Strategies; IV. Conclusions; References; Chapter 3. Evolutionary Aspects of Social and Individual Development: Comments and Illustrations from the World System Perspective; I. The Context of Development and the Development of Context; II. Toward Worldwide Institutionalized Individualism: The Trend at the State Level
  • III. The Institutionalization of Individualism at the World System LevelIV. Conclusions; References; Chapter 4. Causal Regressive Dependencies: An Introduction; I. Introduction; II. Introductory Examples; III. Causal and Weak Causal Regressive Dependence; IV. Illustrative Applications; V. Conclusion; Appendix; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 5. Structure Identification Using Nonparametric Models; I. Structures; II. Relations in Structures: A Formal Approach; III. On the Detection of Structures; IV. Application to the Study of Development and Change; V. Summary; Acknowledgments
  • VI. ConclusionReferences; Chapter 8. Individual Development and Aging as a Population Process; I. Introduction; II. Statement of the Thesis; III. Evolution, Development, and Aging: A Synergistic Relationship in Human Society; IV. Individual Development: A Critique of Personological Thinking; V.A Conceptual Schema of Development as a Population Process; VI. Developmental Change Functions in Historical Populations; VII. Strategies for Analyzing Human Development as a Population Process; VIII. Conclusion; References

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