Parents and Peers in Social Development: A Sullivan-Piaget Perspective

by James E. Youniss

Most studies of social development in children have relied on the assumption that adults' instructions to children pass on knowledge of the rules of behavior which govern and preserve society. In this volume, James Youniss argues that the child's relations with his or her friends and peers make a distinctive and critically important contribution to social development. While the child's relations with parents and other adults provide a sense of order...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226964841
• ISBN13: 9780226964843
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 301 Pages