HDFS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Livingsocial, Egocentrism

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Human Development and Family Studies
• Course: HDFS201
• Professor: Palkovitz Rob

Document Summary

Theories: research, policy, macro trump building the wall, micro coming home on time for dinner to eat as a family, applied perspectives interventions. Professors experience/observation: people globally have the same challenges to overcome to live and develop well, they just have different resources to deploy in meeting those challenges, development in global context. Recap thus far: systems of development, central to understanding, mutual influence both within and across, domains. Importance of contexts: ses, education, environmental resources. Types of development: quantitative: easily counted or numericized. Income: qualitative: having to do with quality of functioning, diet, standard of living, social cognateness. The lifespan perspective: development is a life-long process, multidimensional, domains of development, development is multidirectional. There are both gains and losses: every gain has a loss. Form a psycho-social perspective, development is all about self to other orientations: developing a sense of self, self-concept, self-esteem, identity.