TY  - BOOK
AU  - Green, Lorraine
AU  - Green,Lorraine
TI  - Understanding the Life Course:  Sociological and Psychological Perspectives
SN  - 9780745640167
U1  - O40 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - U K
PB  - Polity Press
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1    Understanding the Life Course	10
Introduction	10
Changes affecting the contemporary life course in the UK 10
Unreality TV, people`s perceptions of human `nature` and lay theorizing	14
Sociology and psychology	19
Life course sociology and life span psychology	23
Social science research methods	30
Life span psychology, life course sociology and multi-disciplinarity	33
2   Traditional Psychological Approaches to Children	40
Introduction	40
Physical development and memory	41
Psychoanalytic development	44
The psychosocial approach	47
Attachment	48
Modern psychoanalytic theories and attachment	50
Cognitive development	52
Modern cognitive developmental theory	54
Learning theories	56
Language acquisition	59
Conclusion	61
3   The New Social Studies of Childhood	63
Introduction	63
Criticisms of developmental psychology 67
The `new sociology of childhood theorists` and other social perspectives	73
Conclusion       86
Adolescence and Youth
Introduction
Adolescence and psychology Youth and sociology 
Conclusion
Young Adulthood
Introduction
Psychology and young adulthood
Sociology and young adulthood
Conclusion
Middle Adulthood
Introduction
Psychology and middle adulthood
Sociology and middle adulthood
Conclusion
7    Old Age 
Introduction 
Old age and psychology 
Old age and sociology 
Conclusion
8    Death, Dying, Grief and Loss Introduction
Bereavement and psychology 
The sociology of death and dying

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