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'This volume presents the reader with a stimulating rich tapestry of essays exploring the nature of action and intentionality, and discussing their role in human development. As the contributions make clear, action is an integrative concept that forms the bridge between our psychological, biological, and sociocultural worlds. Action is also integrative in the sense of entailing motivational, emotional, and cognitive systems, and this integration too is well represented in the chapters. Action is defined, and distinguished from behavior, according to its intentional quality. Thus, a constantly recurring theme in the volume involves the dialectic of action-intentionality, and specifically the questions of how and when these concepts are to be distinguished. For action theorists, action-as distinguished from behavior-constitutes the fundamental mechanism of human development. This commitment is detailed in several essays that explore the life-span implications of action. This timely volume will be must reading for all who want to learn about, or stay current with, contemporary action theoretical approaches to human development' - Willis F. Overton, Temple University

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Action and Self-Development
• Subtitle: Theory and Research Through the LifeSpan
• Author: Jochen Brandtstadter, Richard M. Lerner
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 568
• EAN: 9780761915430
• ISBN: 0761915435
• ID: 04683985
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
• Weight: 880 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. October 1999

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