Contents

pp v-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-x

Comparisons in Human Development: To Begin a Conversation

pp 1-10

Part One - Metatheoretical Approaches to Developmental Comparisons

pp 11-12

1 - Developmental Research and Comparative Perspectives: Applications to Developmental Science

pp 13-33

2 - Developmental Concepts across Disciplines

pp 34-71

3 - Ecological Perspectives in Human Development: A Comparison of Gibson and Bronfenbrenner

pp 72-106

Part Two - Paradigmatic Statements

pp 107-108

4 - Nested Comparisons in the Study of Historical Change and Individual Adaptation

pp 109-136

5 - The Value of Comparisons in Developmental Psychology

pp 137-161

6 - Implications from Developmental Cross-cultural Research for the Study of Acculturation in Western Civilizations

pp 162-190

Part Three - Comparisons at the Level of Data

pp 191-192

7 - The Co-development of Identity, Agency, and Lived Worlds

pp 193-221

8 - Sociocultural Promotions Constraining Children's Social Activity: Comparisons and Variability in the Development of Friendships

pp 222-251

9 - The Everyday Experiences of North American Preschoolers in Two Cultural Communities: A Cross-disciplinary and Cross-level Analysis

pp 252-282

Part Four - Commentaries

pp 283-284

10 - Developmental Science: A Case of the Bird Flapping Its Wings or the Wings Flapping the Bird?

pp 285-292

11 - Conceptual Transposition, Parallelism, and Interdisciplinary Communication

pp 293-303

12 - The “Ecological” Approach: When Labels Suggest Similarities beyond Shared Basic Concepts in Psychology

pp 304-317

13 - Problems of Comparison: Methodology, the Art of Storytelling, and Implicit Models

pp 318-333

14 - The Promise of Comparative, Longitudinal Research for Studies of Productive-Reproductive Processes in Children's Lives

pp 334-339

15 - Integrating Psychology into Social Science

pp 340-354

Author Index

pp 355-361

Subject Index

pp 362-368