Nesselroade / Eye Individual Development and Social Change

Explanatory Analysis
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-7482-9
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Web PDF

Individual Development and Social Change: Explanatory Analysis represents a convergence of three lines of emphasis now visible in developmental research and theory building. The three are (1) the life course as a focus for the study of development and social change, and their interrelationships; (2) the life-span orientation to the study of individual development, with its acknowledgment of the salience of contextual features for understanding development; and (3) the growth of methodological innovations that provide more appropriate and powerful ways of exploiting data gathered to describe and explain developmental change processes. The book opens with a study on how major cultural change originates and unfolds over time. This is followed by separate chapters on the use of sequential designs for explanatory analyses; evolutionary aspects of social and individual development; the concepts of the theory of causal and weak causal regressive dependence; and the concepts of age, period, and cohort from the perspective of developmental psychology. Subsequent chapters examine development and aging as lifelong processes of historical populations; the methodological integration of natural and cultural science perspectives in developmental psychology; and application of the multifaceted methodology to the mutuality of constraint between sociocultural group and individual dynamics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nesselroade, John R.

Eye, Alexander Von

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Chapter 1. The Use and Abuse of World Systems Theory: The Case of the Pristine West Asian State;10
5.1;INTRODUCTION;10
5.2;WORLD SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND PREHISTORY: ITS POTENTIAL VALUE;13
5.3;THE ANCIENT POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE SCALE OF ITS ACTIVITIES;16
5.4;WEST ASIAN BRONZE AGE WORLD SYSTEMS: THE PROBLEMS OF MULTIPLE CORES AND TRANSFERABLE TECHNOLOGIES;27
5.5;TOTAL HISTORY AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION: IN SEARCH OF A SYNTHESIS;37
5.6;REFERENCES;38
6;Chapter 2. Modeling Interregional Interaction in Prehistory;46
6.1;INTRODUCTION;46
6.2;DIFFUSION;49
6.3;TRADE;58
6.4;WORLD SYSTEMS THEORY;64
6.5;AN ALTERNATIVE INTERSOCIETAL INTERACTION FRAMEWORK;71
6.6;Acknowledgments;90
6.7;REFERENCES;91
7;Chapter 3. The Use and Misuse of Nineteenth-Century English and American Ceramics in Archaeological Analysis;106
7.1;INTRODUCTION;107
7.2;THE CATEGORIZATION OF HISTORICAL CERAMICS;110
7.3;CHRONOLOGICAL PLACEMENT OF CERAMIC TYPES OR SITE ASSEMBLAGES;173
7.4;BEYOND CATEGORIZATION AND DATING;181
7.5;CONCLUDING REMARKS;203
7.6;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;204
7.7;REFERENCES;205
8;Chapter 4. Weathering of Inorganic Materials: Dating and Other Applications;220
8.1;INTRODUCTION;220
8.2;KINETICS, MECHANISMS, AND THERMODYNAMICS OF WEATHERING;222
8.3;ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR SURFACE ANALYSIS OF CERAMICS;232
8.4;APPLICATIONS;236
8.5;SUMMARY;255
8.6;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;256
8.7;REFERENCES;256
8.8;ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHY;261
9;Chapter 5.
Strategies for Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in Archaeology;264
9.1;INTRODUCTION;264
9.2;RECONSTRUCTING LANDFORMS;272
9.3;RECONSTRUCTING VEGETATION;283
9.4;RECONSTRUCTING FAUNA;294
9.5;RECONSTRUCTING WATER AND ICE;306
9.6;RECONSTRUCTING CLIMATE;312
9.7;SYNTHESIS;324
9.8;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;329
9.9;REFERENCES;329
10;Chapter 6. Deposits for Archaeologists;346
10.1;INTRODUCTION;346
10.2;THE DEPOSIT;348
10.3;COMPARISON OF GEOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONCEPTS OF DEPOSIT;350
10.4;ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONCEPT OF DEPOSIT;355
10.5;ATTRIBUTES OF SEDIMENTS;366
10.6;CONCLUSION;384
10.7;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;387
10.8;REFERENCES;387
11;Index;406