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Norms in Human Development
Edited By Leslie Smi
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Description for Norms in Human Development
Hardback. The distinction between norms and facts is long-standing in providing a challenge for psychology. Editor(s): Smith, Leslie; Voneche, Jacques. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 626.
The distinction between norms and facts is long-standing in providing a challenge for psychology. Norms exist as directives, commands, rules, customs and ideals, playing a constitutive role in human action and thought. Norms lay down 'what has to be' (the necessary, possible or impossible) and 'what has to be done' (the obligatory, the permitted or the forbidden) and so go beyond the 'is' of causality. During two millennia, norms made an essential contribution to accounts of the mind, yet the twentieth century witnessed an abrupt change in the science of psychology where norms were typically either excluded altogether or reduced ... Read more
The distinction between norms and facts is long-standing in providing a challenge for psychology. Norms exist as directives, commands, rules, customs and ideals, playing a constitutive role in human action and thought. Norms lay down 'what has to be' (the necessary, possible or impossible) and 'what has to be done' (the obligatory, the permitted or the forbidden) and so go beyond the 'is' of causality. During two millennia, norms made an essential contribution to accounts of the mind, yet the twentieth century witnessed an abrupt change in the science of psychology where norms were typically either excluded altogether or reduced ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521857949
SKU
V9780521857949
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About Edited By Leslie Smi
Leslie Smith is Professor Emeritus, Lancaster University and is currently based in the Lake District as a freelance researcher. Jacques Voneche is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychology at the University of Geneva and Director of the Archives Jean Piaget.
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