Childhood Socialization

by Levine, Robert Alan

• ISBN13: 9789628093618
• ISBN10: 9628093614
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr

Summary

"This book on the socialization of the child in diverse cultures focuses on parent-child relationships, enculturation, and child development under changing educational conditions. Twelve articles originally published by the author and his colleagues between 1960 and 1996 show the evolution not only in LeVine's thinking but in the field as a whole. These articles are supplemented by new commentaries written for this volume. LeVine examines intersections among patterns of childhood experience, cultural values and institutional change in developing societies during the 20th century. Individual chapters include a focus on Kenya, Nigeria and Mexico; parenting, the child's acquisition of culture, and the impact of mass schooling on maternal care; and critiques of psychoanalysis, environmentalism and the psychology of individual differences."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Robert A. LeVine's career included decades of teaching and research at Harvard University, USA, and in 2001 and 2002, he was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword	ix
The Most Important Influences on Human Development Foreword by Thomas A. Weisner	xi
Introduction
Studying Socialization: The Anthropology of Educational Processes	1	(14)
Part I. Exploring Childhood in Africa: Early Studies	15	(52)
Introduction	17	(4)
1. The Internalization of Political Values in Stateless Societies (1960)	21	(16)
2. Father-Child Relationships and Changing Life-Styles in Ibadan, Nigeria (1967)	37	(30)
Part II. Toward a Theory of Parenting	67	(34)
Introduction	69	(6)
3. Parental Goals: A Cross-Cultural View (1974)	75	(14)
4. A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Parenting (1980)	89	(12)
Part III. World Educational Change: A Cultural and Historical Perspective	101	(86)
Introduction	103	(4)
5. Virtues and Vices: Agrarian Models of the Life Span (1986)	107	(20)
6. Revolution in Parenthood (1986)	127	(18)
7. Revolution in Schooling (1986)	145	(14)
8. Educational Mobilization: The Case of Japan (1986)	159	(28)
Part IV. Enculturation and the Development of Self	187	(42)
Introduction	189	(2)
9. Enculturation: A Biosocial Perspective on the Development of Self (1990)	191	(18)
10. Infant Environments in Psychoanalysis: A Cross-Cultural View (1990)	209	(20)
Part V. Maternal Schooling and Early Child Development in Mexico	229	(58)
Introduction	231	(4)
11. Women's Schooling and Child Care in the Demographic Transition: A Mexican Case Study (1991)	235	(38)
12. Education and Mother-Infant Interaction: A Mexican Case Study (1996)	273	(14)
Index	287