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Variability in the social construction of the child / Sara Harkness, Catherine Raeff, Charles M. Super, editors.
Van Pelt Library HQ755.85 .V37 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New directions for child development 0195-2269 ; no. 87.
- New directions for child development, 0195-2269 ; no. 87
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parenting--United States.
- Parenting.
- United States.
- Child rearing--United States.
- Child rearing.
- Child psychology.
- Developmental psychology.
- Social skills in children.
- Children--Cross-cultural studies.
- Children.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- 115 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2000.
- Summary:
- Responding to the need for more research into sociocultural influences on ideas about children, this volume analyzes data from America, Japan, Columbia, Israel and the Netherlands to explore variations within and between cultures in how parents, teachers and others think about children. With a particular focus on the dichotomy between individualism and collectivism, the contributors examine such questions as: Can variability in ideas about children best be conceptualized in terms of universal categories, or is each socially constructed concept of the child unique? At what social level can these variations best be identified on a global, West vs. East level, or between classes and cultural groups within individual societies, or between social groups at the community level? And how are these varying socially constructed images of the child expressed?
- This is the 87th issue of the quarterly journal "New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development.
- Contents:
- Editors' notes / Sara Harkness, Catherine Raeff, Charles M. Super
- Independence and interdependence in diverse cultural contexts / Melanie Killen, Cecilia Wainryb
- Individualism and the "Western Mind reconsidered : American and Dutch parents' ethnotheories of the child / Sara Harkness, Charles M. Super, Nathalie van Tijen
- Homogeneity and heterogenity in cultural belief systems / Robin L. Harwood, Axel Sch"olmerich, Pamela A. Schultze
- Conceptualizing interpersonal relationships in the cultural contexts of individualism and collectivism / Catherine Raeff, Patricia Marks Greenfield, Blanca Quiroz
- Uniformity and diversity in everyday views of the child / Kelvin L. Seifert
- Cross-cultural conflict and harmony in the social construction of the child / Patricia Marks Greenfield, Blanca Quiroz, Catherine Raeff.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 078795506X
- OCLC:
- 43844747
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