15 pages underlined, notated, and marked in margins. name written on 1st page. cover faded, aged and creased with dents, smudges, and corner wear. 5 page corners folded, other corners bent and worn, and 1st page edge tear.

1974 Cambridge University Press paperback. 316 pages. 9" x 6".

This is an account of the early development and socialization of children. The process by which an infant becomes a competnte member of the social community and development the fundamental human attributes of speech , social communication, thought, self-reflection and consciousness is examined. An infant is not fully social at birth, but is a biological organism with biological propensities and organisation, who becomes social through encounters with social adults. Throughout development there is an essential tension between the biological and the social. The infant and the social world are in  constant interaction. Thus any serious study of child development is interdisciplinary, moving outwards from psychology towards both biology and sociology, and it is this interdisciplinary approach that unites the contributors to this volume. The interplay of psychological and social factors is discussed against a background of development biology.