This volume explores the psychological development of the individual from both ethological and sociological viewpoints.

Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the sociopsychological study of individual development Willem Doise and Augusto Palmonari; Part I. The Ethological and Sociological Study of Interaction Patterns: 2. Development of early peer interaction Hurbert Montagner, Albert Restoin, Véronique Ullmann, Danilo Rodriguez, Dominique Godard and Mireille Viala; 3. Family way of life and interaction patterns Martti Takala; Part II. Adult Control Techniques: 4. Parental control techniques in the context of socialization theory H. Rudolph Schaffer; 5. Behaviour and goals in adult-child interaction in the day nursery Francesca Emiliani and Bruna Zani; Part III. Language Development: 6. On the failure of the interactionist paradigm in language acquisition: a re-evaluation Luigia Camaioni, Maria F. P. de Castro Campos and Claudia de Lemos; 7. Coming to understand the referential communication can be ambiguous Elizabeth J. Robinson and W. Peter Robinson; Part IV. Social Interaction in Cognitive Development: 8. Social regulations in cognitive development Gabriel Mugny, Paola De Paolis and Felice Carugati; 9. The representation of distance in the individual and collective drawings of children Marie-Danielle Frésard; Part V. Understanding the social environment: 10. Some trends in structuring social knowledge. A developmental study Luciano Arcuri, Rosanna De Negri Trentin, Remo Job and Paola Salmaso; 11. Levels of social and logico-mathematical thinking: their nature and inter-relations Gustav Jahoda; Part VI. Social Construction of Adolescent Identity: 12. Coordinating the sociological and psychological in adolescent interactions Carolyn Wood Sherif; 13. Social differentiation in adolescence: the case of North Africans in France Maryla Zaleska and Hanna Malewska-Peyre; 14. Re-socialization processes in institutionalized adolescents Felice Carugati, Francesca Emiliani and Augusto Palmonari; Part VII. On Becoming a Worker: 15. Social interaction in adolescent development: schools, sex roles and entry to work Michael A. West and Peggy Newton; 16. Work entry: a critical moment in the occupational socialization process Guido Sarchielli; Part VIII. Concluding Remarks: 17. Characteristics of contemporary socialization studies Willem Doise and Augusto Palmonari; Author index.