Social Change And Human Development

Author : Rainer K Silbereisen
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 0857029363
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Change and Human Development written by Rainer K Silbereisen and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today′s world is characterized by a set of overarching trends that often come under the rubric of social change. In this innovative volume, Rainer K. Silbereisen and Xinyin Chen bring together, for the first time, international experts in the field to examine how changes in our social world impact on our individual development. Divided into four parts, the book explores the major socio-political and technological changes that have taken place around the world - from post- from the rapid upheavals in 1990s Europe to the gradual changes in parts of East Asia - and explains how these developments interplay with human development across the lifespan. Human Development and Social Change is a useful resource for students and researchers involved in all areas of human development, including developmental psychology, sociology and education.

Author : Alejandra Boni
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317587189
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Universities and Global Human Development written by Alejandra Boni and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes the case for a critical turn in development thinking around universities and their contributions in making a more equal post-2015 world. It puts forward a normative approach based on human development and the capability approach, one which can gain a hearing from policy, scholarship, and practitioners dealing with practical issues of understanding policy, democratising research and knowledge, and fostering student learning - all key university functions. The book argues that such an approach can elucidate development debates drawing on local, national and international issues and examples to show why higher education matters for sustainable development goals both in educational and social terms. It advocates a new arena of engagement with universities as key sites of development and freedoms beyond human capital and challenges development omissions and gaps around university education. The book explores how the human development approach addresses the following core ideas: the meaning of well-being, the idea of agency, participation and democratic citizenship, how to address inequalities, the relation between local and global, and the idea of equitable partnerships. This book is addressed to researchers and postgraduate students in development studies, university education, the capability approach and human development community.

Author : Wolfgang Friedlmeier
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135420920
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Human Development written by Wolfgang Friedlmeier and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As intercultural encounters between people in the modern world become more common, important questions have been raised about the nature of culture-specific differences and similarities. Focusing on the relationship between culture and human development, this timely book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of key developmental processes. It combines psychological and sociological approaches with cross-cultural research to examine phenomena such as the transfer of culture between generations and the universality of attachment theory. Drawing on detailed research from a range of cultural groups, leading international researchers consider the impact of social change and modernization on the development of the individual and at the societal level. Theoretical and methodological issues are presented in terms of how to apply the results of cross-cultural research as well as recent empirical research done in specialized areas of the field. Finally, short-term intercultural exchanges are examined and used to suggest some of the potential practical uses of cross-cultural research for the future. This book will be essential reading for anyone studying or researching in cultural psychology, cross-cultural psychology, acculturation or behavioral development. It will also prove an invaluable source of information for anyone interested in sociology and the social sciences in general.

Author : C. Psaltis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137400994
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Relations in Human and Societal Development written by C. Psaltis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social interaction is the engine which drives an individual's psychological development and it can create changes on all levels of society. Social Relations in Human and Societal Development includes essays by internationally renowned academics from a range of disciplines including social psychology, international relations and child development.

Author : Ronald Inglehart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521846951
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy written by Ronald Inglehart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a revised version of modernisation theory.

Author : Philip McMichael
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506334067
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Development and Social Change written by Philip McMichael and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is a proud sponsor of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. In this new Sixth Edition of Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective, author Philip McMichael describes a world undergoing profound social, political, and economic transformations, from the post-World War II era through the present. He tells a story of development in four parts—colonialism, developmentalism, globalization, and sustainability—that shows how the global development "project" has taken different forms from one historical period to the next. Throughout the text, the underlying conceptual framework is that development is a political construct, created by dominant actors (states, multilateral institutions, corporations and economic coalitions) and based on unequal power arrangements. While rooted in ideas about progress and prosperity, development also produces crises that threaten the health and well-being of millions of people, and sparks organized resistance to its goals and policies. Frequent case studies make the intricacies of globalization concrete, meaningful, and clear. Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective challenges us to see ourselves as global citizens even as we are global consumers. Contributor to the SAGE Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award Find out more at www.sagepub.com/sociologyaward

Author : Lisa J. Crockett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521623896
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Adolescence in Times of Social Change written by Lisa J. Crockett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decline of the socialist governments in Eastern and Central Europe and the resulting political and economic reorganizations of the 1990s provided a dramatic illustration of the far-reaching effects of social change. For those interested in the health and well-being of youth, such instances of social upheaval raise the question of how young people are affected socially and psychologically by societal changes, and whether their development is compromised or enhanced. This important volume considers the processes through which societal changes exert an impact on the course of adolescent development and identify individual and contextual factors that can modify the impact of social change and enhance the likelihood of a successful transition to adulthood.

Author : Barbara Rogoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199813620
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cultural Nature of Human Development written by Barbara Rogoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with safety and some skill, although U.S. middle-class adults often do not trust young children with knives. What explains these marked differences in the capabilities of these children? Until recently, traditional understandings of human development held that a child's development is universal and that children have characteristics and skills that develop independently of cultural processes. Barbara Rogoff argues, however, that human development must be understood as a cultural process, not simply a biological or psychological one. Individuals develop as members of a community, and their development can only be fully understood by examining the practices and circumstances of their communities.

Author : Brady Wagoner
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1617357596
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture and Social Change written by Brady Wagoner and published by IAP. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together social sciencists to create an interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic of social change as a cultural process. Culture is as much about novelty as it is about tradition, as much about change as it is about stability. This dynamic tension is analyzed in collective protests, intergroup dynamics, language, mass media, science, community participation, art, and social transitions to capitalism, among others contexts. These diverse cases illustrate a number of key factors that can propel, slow-down and retract social change. An emancipatory and integrative social science is developed in this book, which offers a new explanatory model of human behavior and thought under conditions of institutional and societal change.

Author : Orville Gilbert Brim (Jr.)
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674166257
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constancy and Change in Human Development written by Orville Gilbert Brim (Jr.) and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How malleable is human nature? Can an individual really change in meaningful ways? Or, are there immutable limits on the possibilities of human growth set in place by genes and early childhood experiences? These questions touch our deepest political and personal concerns, and have long been a matter of fierce debate in the behavioral sciences.