Handbook of Socialization HB

This highly regarded handbook remains the leading reference and advanced text on socialization. Bringing together foremost authorities, the volume reviews the breadth of current knowledge on socialization processes across the lifespan. Contributors present cutting-edge theories and findings pertaining to family, peer, school, community, media, and other influences on individual development. Genetics and biology, cultural psychology, and affective science are given particular attention. Three themes guide the book: the interdependence of biology and experience, the bidirectionality of socialization processes, and the many contributing factors that interact to produce multiple socialization processes and pathways. New to This Edition * Revised structure reflects the diversity of socializing relationships in multiple contexts across the lifespan. * Chapters on adolescence, socialization in the workplace, moral development, culture, and neuroscience. * Many new authors and extensively revised chapters.

Joan E. Grusec, PhD, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. Her research interests focus on socialization in the family, with a particular interest in differentiating among domains of socialization as well as exploring underlying motivations for different forms of prosocial action. She has authored and edited numerous research papers, chapters, and books, and served as Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology.Paul D. Hastings, PhD, is Chair and Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, where he is also a member of the Center for Mind and Brain. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto and postdoctoral training at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, and the National Institute of Mental Health. His research focuses on examining the contributions of neurobiological regulation and parental socialization to adaptive and maladaptive socioemotional development in children and adolescents. He has authored more than 90 research articles, chapters, and books.

"The second edition of the Handbook is a welcome and highly anticipated addition to our field. It is thoroughly updated and offers a truly contemporary view of socialization with increased attention to biological, cultural and contextual aspects. By focusing on the interplay across socialization influences, it retains its well-earned place as the most authoritative volume on this topic. Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers will all benefit from this revised edition. It deserves a place in the library of all serious students of socialization and social development."--Ross D. Parke, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Riverside (Emeritus) "Grusec and Hastings's second edition of the Handbook is a masterful volume describing current understanding of socialization across the lifespan. Although many of the authors contributed to the first edition, their essays provide up-to-date reviews of the ever-expanding literature, while many other chapters focus on eme