Social interaction in individual development / edited by Willem Doise and Augusto Palmonari

Includes bibliographies and index

1. Introduction: the sociopsychological study of individual development / Willem Doise and Augusto Palmonari .--Part I. The Ethological and Sociological Study of Interaction Patterns: .-- 2. Development of early peer interaction/ Hurbert Montagner, Albert Restoin, Véronique Ullmann, Danilo Rodriguez, Dominique Godard and Mireille Viala .-- 3. Family way of life and interaction patterns / Martti Takala .-- Part II. Adult Control Techniques: .-- 4. Parental control techniques in the context of socialization theory / H. Rudolph Schaffer.-- 5. Behaviour and goals in adult–child interaction in the day nursery / Francesca Emiliani and Bruna Zani.-- Part III. Language Development: .-- 6. On the failure of the interactionist paradigm in language acquisition: a re-evaluation / Luigia Camaioni, Maria F. P. de Castro Campos and Claudia de Lemos .-- 7. Coming to understand the referential communication can be ambiguous / Elizabeth J. Robinson and W. Peter Robinson .-- Part IV. Social Interaction in Cognitive Development: .-- 8. Social regulations in cognitive development / Gabriel Mugny, Paola De Paolis and Felice Carugati .-- 9. The representation of distance in the individual and collective drawings of children / Marie-Danielle Frésard .-- Part V. Understanding the social environment: .-- 10. Some trends in structuring social knowledge. A developmental study / Luciano Arcuri, Rosanna De Negri Trentin, Remo Job and Paola Salmaso.-- 11. Levels of social and logico-mathematical thinking: their nature and inter-relations / Gustav Jahoda .-- Part VI. Social Construction of Adolescent Identity: .-- 12. Coordinating the sociological and psychological in adolescent interactions / Carolyn Wood Sherif .-- 13. Social differentiation in adolescence: the case of North Africans in France / Maryla Zaleska and Hanna Malewska-Peyre .-- 14. Re-socialization processes in institutionalized adolescents / Felice Carugati, Francesca Emiliani and Augusto Palmonari .-- Part VII. On Becoming a Worker: .-- 15. Social interaction in adolescent development: schools, sex roles and entry to work / Michael A. West and Peggy Newton .-- 16. Work entry: a critical moment in the occupational socialization process / Guido Sarchielli .-- Part VIII. Concluding Remarks: .-- 17. Characteristics of contemporary socialization studies / Willem Doise and Augusto Palmonari.

In this volume the authors explore the psychological development of the individual from both ethological and sociological viewpoints. This wide-ranging and authoritative survey will be of interest to psychologists and professionals working in education and the social services.