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“This wonderful handbook resonates well beyond its topic and should prove useful for psychologists, sociologists, and students with a variety of scholarly interests….Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.”

—Choice Reviews (on the first edition)


“University libraries should acquire this handbook. Graduate courses on socialization or any of its associated topics should list chapters as required reading and the book as a whole as a resource for theoretical papers and future research.”

—PsycCRITIQUES (on the first edition)


“An excellent handbook....From neuroscience to developmental psychology, this book offers topics of interest to anyone involved in socialization. The literature is well reviewed, critically analyzed, and thoughtfully extended to new directions. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to find a more complete book on socialization....****!”

—Doody's Review Service (on the first edition)


“Grusec and Hastings’s second edition is a masterful volume describing our current understanding of socialization across the life span. Although many of the authors contributed to the first edition, their chapters provide up-to-date reviews of the ever-expanding literature, while numerous other chapters focus on emergent issues and topics not previously included. Invaluable for researchers, this book could also be used as a text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses on socialization.”

—Michael E. Lamb, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom


“Few concepts are more significant in psychology—and in life—than socialization. When we think of how one generation transacts with the next to embed and advance cognition, emotion, morality, and social behavior, we are thinking in socialization terms. We can best understand this vital multilevel life span dynamic by deconstructing it in terms of ages, actors, outcomes, processes, and spaces where socialization occurs. In the second edition of the Handbook of Socialization, Grusec and Hastings have gathered world-renowned experts to address all the foremost aspects of socialization.”

—Marc H. Bornstein, PhD, Editor, Parenting: Science and Practice


“The second edition of the Handbook is a welcome and highly anticipated addition to our field. It is thoroughly updated and offers a truly contemporary view of socialization, with increased attention to biological, cultural, and contextual aspects. By focusing on the interplay across socialization influences, it retains its well-earned place as the most authoritative volume on this topic. Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers will all benefit from this revised edition. It deserves a place in the library of all serious students of socialization and social development.”

—Ross D. Parke, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of California, Riverside


“The Handbook of Socialization, Second Edition, is an essential reference on all aspects of socialization. The renowned editors have assembled leading scholars to provide a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art theory and research.”

—Tina Malti, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto


“We’ve known forever that people are social animals and that each has a personal nature and a socialization history that affects what kind of social animal he or she becomes. But never before has knowledge on socialization been synthesized so well as in this magisterial handbook. Well-conceived, clearly written, up-to-date chapters show how genes, families, schools, workplaces, and cultures interact with a developing human being to create personality, life history, personal problems, and major accomplishments. This is a fascinating volume that will capture the interest of every curious, thoughtful reader.”

—Phillip R. Shaver, PhD, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis

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Table of Contents

I. Historical Perspective on Socialization

1. Historical Overview of Socialization Research and Theory, Eleanor E. Maccoby

II. Socialization across the Life Span

2. Early Socialization: The Influence of Close Relationships, Deborah Laible, Ross A. Thompson, & Jill Froimson

3. Socialization in Adolescence, Judith G. Smetana, Jessica Robinson, & Wendy M. Rote

4. Socialization in Emerging Adulthood: From the Family to the Wider World, from Socialization to Self-Socialization, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett

5. The Multifaceted Nature of Late-Life Socialization: Older Adults as Agents and Targets of Socialization, Gloria Luong, Antje Rauers, & Karen L. Fingerman

III. Socialization in the Context of Different Relationships and Settings

6. Socialization as Dynamic Process: A Dialectical, Transactional Perspective, Leon Kuczynski, C. Melanie Parkin, and Robyn Pitman

7. Analyzing Socialization from a Domain-Specific Perspective, Joan E. Grusec & Maayan Davidov

8. Siblings, Judy Dunn

9. Socialization in the Context of Family Diversity, Charlotte J. Patterson, Rachel H. Farr, & Paul D. Hastings

10. Socialization and Experiences with Peers, William M. Bukowski, Melisa Castellanos, Frank Vitaro, & Mara Brendgen

11. Socialization in School Settings, Kathryn R. Wentzel

12. Media as Agents of Socialization, Sara Prot, Craig A. Anderson, Douglas A. Gentile, Wayne Warburton, Muniba Saleem, Christopher L. Groves, & Stephanie C. Brown

13. New-Employee Organizational Socialization: Adjusting to New Roles, Colleagues, and Organizations, Allison M. Ellis, Talya N. Bauer, & Berrin Erdogan

IV. Biological Aspects of Socialization

14. An Evolutionary Approach to Socialization, Daphne Blunt Bugental, Randy Corpuz, & David A. Beaulieu

15. Socialization, Genetics, and Their Interplay in Development, Reut Avinun & Ariel Knafo-Noam

16. Temperament, Parenting, and Social Development, John E. Bates & Gregory S. Pettit

17. Biological and Psychological Processes Linking Chronic Family Stress to Substance Abuse and Obesity, Rena L. Repetti, Theodore F. Robles, & Bridget M. Reynolds

18. Caregiver Socialization Factors Influencing Socioemotional Development in Infancy and Childhood: A Neuroscience Perspective, Tahl I. Frenkel & Nathan A. Fox

V. Cultural Perspectives on Socialization

19. Culture and Socialization, Xinyin Chen, Rui Fu, & Siman Zhao

20. Children Develop Cultural Repertoires through Engaging in Everyday Routines and Practices, Barbara Rogoff, Leslie C. Moore, Maricela Correa-Chávez, & Amy L. Dexter

21. Emotion Socialization from a Cultural Perspective, Pamela M. Cole & Patricia Z. Tan

22. Acculturation, John W. Berry

VI. Targets of Socialization

23. The Socialization of Gender during Childhood and Adolescence, Campbell Leaper & Timea Farkas

24. The Socialization of Cognition, Mary Gauvain & Susan M. Perez

25. The Socialization of Emotional Competence, Susanne A. Denham, Hideko H. Bassett, & Todd Wyatt

26. Families, Schools, and Developing Achievement-Related Motivations and Engagement, Sandra D. Simpkins, Jennifer A. Fredricks, & Jacquelynne S. Eccles

27. Making Good: The Socialization of Children's Prosocial Development, Paul D. Hastings, Jonas G. Miller, & Natalie R. Troxel

28. Cultivating the Moral Personality: Socialization in the Family and Beyond, Michael W. Pratt & Sam A. Hardy

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About the Editors

Joan E. Grusec, PhD, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. Her research interests center on socialization in the family, with a particular focus on differentiating among domains of socialization as well as exploring underlying motivations for different forms of prosocial action. She has authored and edited numerous research papers, chapters, and books, and served as Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology.

• All titles by Joan E. Grusec

Paul D. Hastings, PhD, is Chair and Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Davis, where he is also a member of the Center for Mind and Brain. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto and postdoctoral training at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, and the National Institute of Mental Health. His research focuses on examining the contributions of neurobiological regulation and parental socialization to adaptive and maladaptive socioemotional development in children and adolescents. He has authored more than 90 research articles, chapters, and books.

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Contributors

Craig A. Anderson, PhD, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, PhD, Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts

Reut Avinun, MSc, Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Hideko H. Bassett, PhD, Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

John E. Bates, PhD, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Talya N. Bauer, PhD, School of Business Administration, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

David A. Beaulieu, PhD, Department of Psychology, Tomball College, Tomball, Texas

John W. Berry, PhD, Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

Mara Brendgen, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Stephanie C. Brown, BA, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Daphne Blunt Bugental, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

William M. Bukowski, PhD, Centre for Research in Human Development, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Melisa Castellanos, MA, Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Xinyin Chen, PhD, Applied Psychology and Human Development Division, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pamela M. Cole, PhD, Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

Randy Corpuz, BA, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

Maricela Correa-Chavez, PhD, Department of Psychology, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, California

Maayan Davidov, PhD, Department of Social Work, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Susanne A. Denham, PhD, Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

Amy L. Dexter, PhD, Department of Psychology, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois

Judy Dunn, PhD, Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, United Kingdom

Jacquelynne S. Eccles, PhD, School of Education, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California

Allison M. Ellis, MS, Department of Psychology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

Berrin Erdogan, PhD, School of Business Administration, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

Timea Farkas, MA, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California

Rachel H. Farr, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts

Karen L. Fingerman, PhD, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Nathan A. Fox, PhD, Institute for Child Study, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Jennifer A. Fredricks, PhD, Department of Human Development, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut

Tahl I. Frenkel, PhD, Institute for Child Study, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Jill Froimson, MS, Department of Psychology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Rui Fu, MA, Applied Psychology and Human Development Division, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Mary Gauvain, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California

Douglas A. Gentile, PhD, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Christopher L. Groves, MS, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Joan E. Grusec, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sam A. Hardy, PhD, Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Paul D. Hastings, PhD, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, Davis, California

Ariel Knafo-Noam, PhD, Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Leon Kuczynski, PhD, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Deborah Laible, PhD, Department of Psychology, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Campbell Leaper, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California

Gloria Luong, PhD, Max Planck Research Group “Affect Across the Lifespan,” Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Eleanor E. Maccoby, PhD, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Jonas G. Miller, MA, Center for Mind and Brain, University of California, Davis, Davis, California

Leslie C. Moore, PhD, Department of Teaching and Learning, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

C. Melanie Parkin, MSc, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Charlotte J. Patterson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Susan M. Perez, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida

Gregory S. Pettit, PhD, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

Robyn Pitman, PhD, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Michael W. Pratt, EdD, Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Sara Prot, MA, Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Antje Rauers, PhD, Max Planck Research Group “Affect Across the Lifespan,” Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany

Rena L. Repetti, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Bridget M. Reynolds, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Jessica Robinson, BS, Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Theodore F. Robles, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Barbara Rogoff, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California

Wendy M. Rote, PhD, Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Muniba Saleem, PhD, Department of Communications and Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Sandra D. Simpkins, PhD, J. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Judith G. Smetana, PhD, Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York

Patricia Z. Tan, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ross A. Thompson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California

Natalie R. Troxel, MA, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California

Frank Vitaro, PhD, Research Unit on Children’s Psychosocial Maladjustment, School of Psychoeducation, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Wayne Warburton, PhD, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Kathryn R. Wentzel, PhD, Department of Human Development, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Todd Wyatt, PhD, Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

Siman Zhao, MA, Applied Psychology and Human Development Division, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Audience

Researchers and students in developmental psychology; also of interest to clinical psychologists, social psychologists, educators, and sociologists.

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Course Use

Will serve as a text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses including Social Development, Child Development, and Social and Personality Development.

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Previous editions published by Guilford:

First Edition, © 2007
ISBN: 9781593859770

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New to this edition:

• Revised structure reflects the diversity of socializing relationships in multiple contexts from infancy through adulthood.
• Sections on biology and culture provide a dual framework and include new chapters on cross-cultural research, genetics, chronic family stress, and neuroscience.
• Chapters on adolescence, new-employee organizational socialization, and cultivating the moral personality.