Biosocial Perspectives On Children
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Author |
: Catherine Panter-Brick |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 1998-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521575958 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521575959 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Biosocial Perspectives on Children by : Catherine Panter-Brick
Childhood is a uniquely human life-stage, and is both a biological phenomenon and a social construct. Research on children is currently of wide-ranging interest. This book presents reviews of childhood from four major areas of interest - human evolution, sociology/social anthropology, bio-medical anthropology and developmental psychology - to form a biosocial, cross-cultural understanding of childhood. The book places a strong emphasis on how childhood varies from culture to culture, offering examples from developed and developing countries, as well as from other animal species. It will be of interest to students and scholars within the fields of human biology, anthropology, sociology, health studies and developmental psychology.
Author |
: Richard J. Gelles |
Publisher |
: Aldine Transaction |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0202303330 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780202303338 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Child Abuse and Neglect by : Richard J. Gelles
Child Abuse and Neglect is the third volume sponsored by the Social Science Research Council. The goals of these volumes include the development of a biosocial perspective and its application to the interface between biological and social phenomena in order to advance the understanding of human behavior. Child Abuse and Neglect applies the biosocial perspective to child maltreatment and maladaptation in parent-child relations. The biosocial perspective is particularly appropriate for investigating parent behavior since the family is the universal social institution in which children are born and reared, in which cultural traditions and values are transmitted, and in which individuals fulfill their biological potential for reproduction, growth, and development. The volume examines biological substrates and social and environmental contexts as determinants of parent behavior. By identifying areas in which contemporary human parent behaviors conform with and depart from evolutionary and historical patterns and assessing the overall costs and benefits, it permits their objective assessment in terms of modern circumstances. In analyzing evolutionary and historical variations in parent behavior and assessing their costs and benefits, the book makes possible an objective assessment of contemporary variations. Its analysis of the occurrence of child abuse in past history and in other cultures and species advances our ability to predict the probability of child abuse and neglect in various social and ecological contexts.
Author |
: Jeanne Altmann |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 784 |
Release |
: 2017-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351500883 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351500880 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Parenting across the Life Span by : Jeanne Altmann
Research on parenting through the life course has developed around two separate approaches. Evolutionary biology provides fresh perspectives from life history theory using behavioral ecology and parental investment theory. At the same time, the social and behavioral sciences integrates research from long-term studies of individual development and from the collection of life histories.This path-breaking book advances evolutionary, life history research by integrating perspectives of these two approaches into a biosocial science of the life course. It examines parenthood as a commitment extending throughout life and focuses on the impact on parental and child behavior of changes in the timing, distribution, and intensity of parental investment. This perspective is particularly appropriate for research on parenting since the family is the universal human institution within which the bearing and rearing of children has been based and which transmits traditions, beliefs, and values to the young.
Author |
: Jane B. Lancaster |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 545 |
Release |
: 2017-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351529112 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351529110 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Child Abuse and Neglect by : Jane B. Lancaster
Child Abuse and Neglect is the third volume sponsored by the Social Science Research Council. The goals of these volumes include the development of a biosocial perspective and its application to the interface between biological and social phenomena in order to advance the understanding of human behavior.Child Abuse and Neglect applies the biosocial perspective to child maltreatment and maladaptation in parent-child relations. The biosocial perspective is particularly appropriate for investigating parent behavior since the family is the universal social institution in which children are born and reared, in which cultural traditions and values are transmitted, and in which individuals fulfill their biological potential for reproduction, growth, and development. The volume examines biological substrates and social and environmental contexts as determinants of parent behavior. By identifying areas in which contemporary human parent behaviors conform with and depart from evolutionary and historical patterns and assessing the overall costs and benefits, it permits their objective assessment in terms of modern circumstances. In analyzing evolutionary and historical variations in parent behavior and assessing their costs and benefits, the book makes possible an objective assessment of contemporary variations. Its analysis of the occurrence of child abuse in past history and in other cultures and species advances our ability to predict the probability of child abuse and neglect in various social and ecological contexts.
Author |
: Jane Beckman Lancaster |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: 131508144X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781315081441 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (4X Downloads) |
Synopsis Child Abuse and Neglect by : Jane Beckman Lancaster
"Child Abuse and Neglect is the third volume sponsored by the Social Science Research Council. The goals of these volumes include the development of a biosocial perspective and its application to the interface between biological and social phenomena in order to advance the understanding of human behavior.Child Abuse and Neglect applies the biosocial perspective to child maltreatment and maladaptation in parent-child relations. The biosocial perspective is particularly appropriate for investigating parent behavior since the family is the universal social institution in which children are born and reared, in which cultural traditions and values are transmitted, and in which individuals fulfill their biological potential for reproduction, growth, and development. The volume examines biological substrates and social and environmental contexts as determinants of parent behavior. By identifying areas in which contemporary human parent behaviors conform with and depart from evolutionary and historical patterns and assessing the overall costs and benefits, it permits their objective assessment in terms of modern circumstances. In analyzing evolutionary and historical variations in parent behavior and assessing their costs and benefits, the book makes possible an objective assessment of contemporary variations. Its analysis of the occurrence of child abuse in past history and in other cultures and species advances our ability to predict the probability of child abuse and neglect in various social and ecological contexts."--Provided by publisher.
Author |
: Alan Booth |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2010-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441973610 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441973613 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Biosocial Foundations of Family Processes by : Alan Booth
Biosocial Research Contributions to Family Processes and Problems, based on the 17th annual National Symposium on Family Issues, examines biosocial models and processes in the context of the family. Research on both biological and social/environmental influences on behavior, health, and development is represented, including behavioral endocrinology, behavior genetics, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, sociology, demography, anthropology, economics, and psychology. The authors consider physiological and social environmental influences on parenting and early childhood development, followed by adolescent adjustment, and family formation. Also, factors that influence how families adapt to social inequalities are examined.
Author |
: Mary E. Lewis |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521836026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521836029 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bioarchaeology of Children by : Mary E. Lewis
Publisher Description
Author |
: Kevin Ryan |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2020-10-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526148605 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526148609 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Refiguring childhood by : Kevin Ryan
Refiguring childhood stages a series of encounters with biosocial power, which is a specific zone of intensity within the more encompassing arena of biopower and biopolitics. Assembled at the intersection of thought and practice, biosocial power attempts to bring envisioned futures into the present, taking hold of life in the form of childhood, thereby bridging being and becoming while also shaping the power relations that encapsulate the social and cultural world(s) of adults and children. Taking up a critical perspective that is attentive to the contingency of childhoods – the ways in which particular childhoods are constituted and configured – this book offers a transversal genealogy that moves between past and present while also crossing a series of discourses and practices framed by children’s rights (the right to play), citizenship, health, disadvantage, and entrepreneurship education. The overarching analysis converges on contemporary neo-liberal enterprise culture, which is approached as a conjuncture that helps to explain, and also to trouble, the growing emphasis on the agency and rights of children. It is against the backdrop of this problematic that the book makes its case for refiguring childhood, focusing on the how, where and when of biosocial power.
Author |
: Sandra Evers |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2011-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004205222 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004205225 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Not Just a Victim: The Child as Catalyst and Witness of Contemporary Africa by : Sandra Evers
Social scientists examining contemporary Africa take considerable pains to resist portraying Africa as nothing more than a land of victims unable to escape historical cycles of war, exploitation and tyranny. However, children are still frequently conceptualised as passive actors, mere extensions of adult societies and receptors of culture. The authors in this volume argue that children are dynamic contributors to the shaping of contemporary Africa. Through novel and unorthodox ethnographic research methods, each chapter provides insights into children’s perspectives on kinship, work, caring, health, migration and conflict, shedding light on children’s views and the vital roles they play in the emerging Africa of tomorrow.
Author |
: Barry S. Hewlett |
Publisher |
: Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 0202366103 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780202366104 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Father-Child Relations by : Barry S. Hewlett
Due to a greater involvement of American fathers in the direct care of their children in recent years, interest in the impact and nature of the father's role in nurturing children has increased. While studies about fathers in the industrialized, literate West have proliferated, little is known about the role of fathers in the preliterate, non- Western world. This collection examines the diversity of paternal roles found in human cultures among various types of societies that are very peaceful and those that actively engage in warfare as a mode of existence. Father-Child Relations recognizes the importance of understanding both biological and cultural aspects of the father's role. Many of the contributors utilize evolutionary or biosocial models, including those of developmental psychology, to examine the father's role, while others rely upon the symbolic analysis of cultural and social anthropology. One chapter is devoted to male-infant relationships in nonhuman primates, a further largely ignored comparative perspective. The anthropologists who have contributed to this collection are field workers who have lived intimately over significant periods of time with the people about whom they are writing. These research reports from the field have been edited to make them wholly accessible to the non-specialist. The contributors of this volume recognize that biology and ideology are intertwined; both together influence the father's behavior and the effects of his behavior.