Comment: And ethology?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Keynote 1
4. Foreword 5
5. How it all began – Background to this book 9
6. Part I. Prelude and dedication
7. Themes in the relation between children and the city 23
8. Children’s life worlds in urban environments 55
9. Toward a functional ecology of behavior and development: The legacy of Joachim F. Wohlwill 85
10. Part II. Exposition of theoretical perspectives
11. Introduction 113
12. A. Levels of relationship – As they appear in different cultures
13. Introduction 119
14. A dialectical/transactional framework of social relations: Children in secondary territories 123
15. Comment: Proving philosophy!? 155
16. Authors’ response: Translating a world view 162
17. A contextualist perspective on child-environment relations 164
18. Comment: Clarifying fusion 193
19. Child development and environment: A constructivist perspective 199
20. Comment: Constructivist potentialities and limitations 226
21. Author’s response: Following Aristotle 235
22. Integration: What environment? Which relationship? 237
23. Β. Transactional, holistic, and relational-developmental perspectives on children in the cities
24. Introduction 251
25. Transactionalism 253
26. Comment: Transactionalism – What could it be? 267
27. Author’s response: Is Lang going beyond? 276
28. A holistic, developmental, systems-oriented perspective: Child-environment relations 278
29. Comment: Werner augmented 301
30. Relational-developmental theory: A psychological perspective 315
31. Comment: From the general to the individual or from the individual to the general? 336
32. Author’s response: General and individual – A relation 342
33. Integration: Dimensions of a conceptual space – But for what? 344
34. C. Modern versions of Barker’s ecological psychology and the phenomenological perspective
35. Introduction 355
36. Children’s environments: The phenomenological approach 357
37. Comment: Don’t forget the subjects – An approach against environmentalism 370
38. Authors’ response: Reading a text – A case study in perspectivity 380
39. Commentators’ reply: Seductive sciences 382
40. Behavior settings in macroenvironments: Implications for the design and analysis of places 383
41. Comment: Behavior setting revitalized 405
42. Behavior settings as vehicles of children’s cultivation 411
43. Comment: Behavior settings forever! 435
44. Integration: Ecological psychology and phenomenology – Their commonality, differences, and interrelations 442
45. D. Sociobiology, attachment theory, and ecological psychology – Marching towards the city
46. Introduction 451
47. Exploratory behavior, place attachment, genius loci, and childhood concepts: Elements of understanding children’s interactions with their environments 455
48. Comment: Gender are two 469
49. Author’s response:... but different ones 475
50. Children in cities: An ethological/sociobiological approach 476
51. Comment: And ethology? 504
52. Author’s response: Adaptive variations and the individual 512
53. Street traffic, children, and the extended concept of affordance as a means of shaping the environment 514
54. Comment: Children as perceivers and actors – The view from ecological realism 543
55. Authors’ response: Environmental design means the design of affordances 551
56. Commentator’s reply: The extended concept reconsidered 554
57. Integration: The path to integration is not straight 555
58. Reflections: What has happened in treading the path toward a psychological theory of children and their cities 561
59. Part III. The Finale
60. Integrating youth- and context-focused research and outreach: A developmental contextual model 573
61. The young and the old in the city: Developing intergenerational relationships in urban environments 598
62. Where we are – A discussion 629
63. Appendix
64. Biographical notes 647
65. Subject index 655
66. Author index 675