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Positive Social Behavior and Morality: Socialization and Development, Volume 2 tackles the social aspects of the development or non-development of positive social behavior. The book examines how peer influence, a child's varied experiences, and other forms of socialization can instigate the dev...

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Main Authors: Staub, Ervin
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: New York London :
Publication Dates: 1979.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780126631029
Summary: Positive Social Behavior and Morality: Socialization and Development, Volume 2 tackles the social aspects of the development or non-development of positive social behavior. The book examines how peer influence, a child's varied experiences, and other forms of socialization can instigate the development of positive social or prosocial behavior. Topics on the nature of positive social behavior; theoretical approaches to children's development; role of peers in the development of the affectional system; and how the nature of the child's environment can influence the development of prosocial beh
Item Description: In 2 vols.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xxi, 317 pages)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-297) and index.
ISBN: 9781483257778
1483257770
Index Number: BF637
CLC: C912.6
Contents: Front Cover; Positive Social Behavior and Morality: Socialization and Development; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents of Volume 1; Chapter 1. Positive Social Behavior, Morality, and Development; The Nature of Positive Social Behavior; The Origins of Positive Social Behavior; Determinants versus Development; The Determinants of Positive Behavior: A Brief Review; The Origins of Personality and Positive Behavior; Chapter 2. Major Approaches to Development; Identification-Internalization Approach; Social-Learning Approach.
Cognitive Developmental ApproachChapter 3. Development with Age: Prosocial Behavior, Social Cognition, and Related Characteristics; Changes in Prosocial Behavior with Age; Changes in Consistency with Age; Changes in Different Types of Role Taking with Age; Affective Role-Taking; Thinking about Others' Intentions and Motives; Moral Judgment, Role Taking, and Cognition; The Growth of Altruistic Motivation; Chapter 4. Socialization: Basic Styles and Issues; Parental Control, Controlling Styles, and the Socialization of Morality; The Relationship between Parents and Children.
The Learning of Standards, Self-Reinforcement, and Self-RegulationChapter 5. Socialization: Practices That Promote Prosocial Development; What Is Learned, and Other Issues; The Conditioning of Prosocial Behavior; Learning through Observation; Reasoning by Parents: Induction; Values and Value Orientations of Parents and Children; Chapter 6. Natural Socialization: Participation in Positive Behavior and Experiential Learning; Focusing Responsibility on Children and Learning by Participation; Experimental Research on Learning by Participation and Interactive Experience.
Interactive Experience, Role Taking, and Experiential LearningChapter 7. Peer Socialization: The Influence of Peers on Positive and Negative Behavior and Personality; The Role of Peers in the Development of the Affectional System; Reciprocity in Children's Interactions; Popularity, Peer Interaction, and Adjustment; Improving Peer Relations; Socialization and Peer Relations; The Influence of the Nature and Rules of the Peer Group and of the Extended Environment; Chapter 8. Summary and Conclusions: The Development of Positive Social Behavior and Morality; Classes of Socializing Influences.
Principles of ChangeThe Outcomes of Socialization for Prosocial Behavior; Education in Positive Behavior; Culture, History, and the Universal Applicability of Our Understanding of Development; References; Author Index; Subject Index.