ABSTRACT

The dialectical issues threaded through this volume are among the most exacting challenges in child development research. We no longer conceive of socialization as the processes through which parents ‘mold’’ the social repertoires of their children; nor do we seek merely to identify sequences through which the child, in vacuo, constructs its vision of reality. The contemporary view of child development is a construedvist view: a view of the child that emphasizes the transactions occurring between a changing individual and a changing social environment.