Social Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Historical, Theoretical, and Methodological Considerations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Historical and Theoretical Foundations

      • Joan E. Grusec, Hugh Lytton

      Pages 3-42

   3. Methodology: History and Issues

      • Joan E. Grusec, Hugh Lytton

      Pages 43-77

3. The Foundations of Development

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Genetic and Biological Bases of Social Behavior

      • Joan E. Grusec, Hugh Lytton

      Pages 81-118

   3. The Origins of Social Behavior

      • Joan E. Grusec, Hugh Lytton

      Pages 119-160

   4. Socialization and the Family

      • Joan E. Grusec, Hugh Lytton

      Pages 161-212

   5. Widening Social Networks and Their Influences

      • Joan E. Grusec, Hugh Lytton

      Pages 213-252

4. The Content of Development

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Social Cognition

      • Joan E. Grusec, Hugh Lytton

      Pages 255-290

   3. The Development of Self-Control and the Problem of Aggression

      • Joan E. Grusec, Hugh Lytton

      Pages 291-325

   4. Morality and Altruism

      • Joan E. Grusec, Hugh Lytton

      Pages 326-362

   5. Sex Differences and Sex Roles

      • Joan E. Grusec, Hugh Lytton

      Pages 363-408

5. Some Social Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 409-409

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   2. Divorce and Its Aftermath

      • Joan E. Grusec, Hugh Lytton

      Pages 411-432

   3. Threats to Secure Attachment

      • Joan E. Grusec, Hugh Lytton

      Pages 433-460

6. Back Matter

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For many years students who took courses in social development had no text available for their use. Those of us who instructed them had to rely on assigning journal articles to be read and providing an overview and syn­ thesis of the area in our lectures. In the last few years, the situation has changed markedly. There are now several very good textbooks that fill the void, reflecting an increasing interest in this area of research and theory. Here is one more. There are many ways to tell a story. Our book, we think, tells it dif­ ferently enough to have made it worth the writing. As we began to talk, some time ago, about undertaking this project, we found we had a mutual interest in trying to present the study of social development from a histori­ cal point of view. The field has changed dramatically from its inception, and we have both been in it long enough to have witnessed first-hand a number of these changes. Modifications of theoretical orientations and the de­ velopment of increasingly sophisticated and rigorous methodology have brought with them the stimulation of controversy and growth, as social developmental psychologists argued about the best ways of going about their business. Certainly the same things have happened in other areas of psychology, but the arguments seem to have been particularly vigorous in our own domain.

• Emotion
• Evolution
• Familie
• Institution
• Integration
• Moral
• Nation
• Sex
• behavior
• cognition
• development
• environment
• nature
• peer group
• social psychology

• Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  Joan E. Grusec

• Department of Educational Psychology, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

  Hugh Lytton

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