| Parenting Across the Life Span: Biosocial Dimensions Contributor(s): Altmann, Jeanne (Author) |
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ISBN: 0202303322 ISBN-13: 9780202303321 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $168.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - Family & Relationships | Parenting - General |
| Dewey: 306.874 |
| LCCN: 86021127 |
| Lexile Measure: 1470 |
| Series: Social Institutions and Social Change |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.22" W x 8.8" (1.07 lbs) 488 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Altmann, Jeanne: - Jeanne Altmann is Eugene Higgins Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. She is the author of Baboon Mothers and Infants. Sherrod, Lonnie R.: - Lonnie R. Sherrod is executive director for the Society for Research in Child Development and professor of psychology at Fordham University. He is the author or editor of numerous books including, most recently, Handbook of Research on Youth Civic Engagement.Lancaster, Jane B.: - Jane B. Lancaster is professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Her research mainly focuses on evolution of human parental investment, fertility decisions, intelligence, and lifespan. She serves as editor of a major journal in the field, Human Nature: An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective. Her work has appeared in many professional journals, including Evolution and Human Behavior, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, and Current Anthropology. Rossi, Alice: -Alice S. Rossi (1922-2009) was Harriet Martineau Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a founder of the National Organization of Women. In addition she served as the seventy-fourth president of the American Sociological Association. Some of her works include Gender and the Life Course, Feminists in Politics, and Sexuality Across the Life Course. |