Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA.
Adv Child Dev Behav. 2011;40:337-78. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-386491-8.00009-8.
Many contemporary theories of social development are similar and/or share complementary constructs. Yet, there have been relatively few efforts toward theoretical integration. The present chapter represents a call for increased theory bridging. The problem of theoretical fragmentation in psychology is reviewed. Seven highlighted reasons for this predicament include differences between behavioral sciences and other sciences, theoretical paradigms as social identities, the uniqueness assumption, information overload, field fixation, linguistic fragmentation, and few incentives for theoretical integration. Afterward, the feasibility of theoretical synthesis is considered. Finally, some possible directions are proposed for theoretical integration among five contemporary theories of social and gender development: social cognitive theory, expectancy-value theory, cognitive-developmental theory, gender schema theory, and self-categorization theory.
许多当代社会发展理论是相似的和/或共享互补的结构。然而，理论整合的努力相对较少。本章代表了对增加理论桥梁的呼吁。回顾了心理学中理论碎片化的问题。造成这种困境的七个突出原因包括行为科学与其他科学之间的差异、理论范式作为社会认同、独特性假设、信息过载、领域固定、语言碎片化以及理论整合的激励因素很少。之后，考虑了理论综合的可行性。最后，针对社会和性别发展的五种当代理论（社会认知理论、期望价值理论、认知发展理论、性别图式理论和自我归类理论）之间的理论整合提出了一些可能的方向。
