The Nature-Nurture Debates: Bridging the Gap

ISBN-13: 9780521195362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 190 str.

Dale Goldhaber

Opis

How is it possible that in more than one hundred years, the nature-nurture debate has not come to a satisfactory resolution? The problem, Dale Goldhaber argues, lies not with the proposed answers, but with the question itself. In The Nature-Nurture Debates, Goldhaber reviews the four major perspectives on the issue behavior genetics, environment, evolutionary psychology, and developmental systems theory and shows that the classic, reductionist strategies (behavior genetics and environmental approaches) are incapable of resolving the issue because they each offer a false perspective on the process of human development. It is only through a synthesis of the two holistic perspectives of evolutionary psychology and developmental systems theory that we will be able to understand the nature of human behavior."

Recenzje

"...this book provides a useful review of the history of thought about the different influences on human development that might well provide the basis for an interesting undergraduate course..."
--Dr. Susan E. F. Chipman, PsycCRITIQUES

Spis treści

1. Issues and questions; 2. A brief history lesson; 3. The proxy debate: a primer on methodology and analysis; 4. A classic debate; 5. A new debate; 6. So what?; 7. Now what?