1st Edition
Human Development and the Life Course Multidisciplinary Perspectives
628 Pages
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Psychology Press
First published in 1986. This volume addresses the strengths and limitations of a life-course perspective on human development. The life-course perspective has been variously described as offering a paradigmatic shift in conceptions of human development or as laying the foundation for a new discipline. More modestly, the perspective has been described as primarily an approach to guide research... Read more
Contributors, Preface, PART I BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES, PART II SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTWES, PART III PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES, PART IV EPILOGUE, Author Index, Subject Index
Biography
AAGE B. SORENSEN, Harvard University. FRANZ E. WEINERT, Max Planck Institute for Pychological Research, Munich. LONNIE R. SHERROD, Social Science Research Council.
