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Adolescents, Families, and Social Development: How Teens Construct Their Worlds
Judith G. Smetana
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Description for Adolescents, Families, and Social Development: How Teens Construct Their Worlds
Paperback. In this book, Smetana illustrates how adolescents and parents in different contexts actively negotiate autonomy and coordinate concerns with autonomy and personal choice with their developing understanding of society and social conventions, safety and health, and moral concerns with justice, welfare and rights. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFSP2; JHBK; JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 588.
This book provides an in-depth examination of adolescents’ social development in the context of the family.
This book provides an in-depth examination of adolescents’ social development in the context of the family.
- Grounded in social domain theory, the book draws on the author’s research over the past 25 years
- Draws from the results of in-depth interviews with more than 700 families
- Explores adolescent-parent relationships among ethnic majority and minority youth in the United States, as well as research with adolescents in Hong Kong and China
- Discusses extensive research on disclosure and secrecy during adolescence, parenting, autonomy, and moral development
- Considers both popular sources such as movies and public surveys, as well as scholarly sources drawn from anthropology, history, sociology, ... Read more
- Explores how different strands of development, including autonomy, rights and justice, and society and social convention, become integrated and coordinated in adolescence
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444332513
SKU
V9781444332513
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99-50
About Judith G. Smetana
Judith G. Smetana is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Developmental Psychology at the University of Rochester, where she also held the Frederika Warner Chair in Human Development from 1995 to 1998. She has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, and she is the author of more than 150 articles and chapters on the ... Read more
Reviews for Adolescents, Families, and Social Development: How Teens Construct Their Worlds
“Overall, this book gives great detail on adolescent parent relationships and how they effect the development of children . . . This is a comforting message, one very different from popular accounts, and one that parents and adolescents would benefit from appreciating” (Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 5 December 2012) “Few scholars have influenced the contemporary study of ... Read more