Parent-Child Socialization in Diverse Cultures

Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, D. Bruce Carter, Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, D. Bruce Carter

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 1992
• Print ISBN: 9780893918491
• eBook ISBN: 9780313389108
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Developmental Psychology
• Index: Psychology

For applied developmental psychologists (professionals or graduate students) provides detailed descriptions of dramatically diverse cultures, addressing the role of culture in the functioning of families and the socialization of children (and providing readers with the basis for an increased sensitivity to the ways culture influences every aspect of life). Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Parent–Child Interactions in Urban Indian Families in New Delhi: Are They Changing?
• 2 Chinese Families
• 3 A Comparison of the Parent–Child Relationship in Japan and the United States
• 4 The Socialization of Australian Boys and Girls in Middle Childhood for Independence and Achievement
• 5 Family and Socialization in Turkey
• 6 Moral Socialization of the Child in the Soviet Union From Birth to Age Seven
• 7 The Socialization of Instrumental Competence in Families in the United States
• 8 The Parent-Child Relationship and Socialization in the Context of Modern Childhood: The Case of Sweden
• 9 Family and Parent–Child Relations in Spain
• 10 Families in Puerto Rico: An Analysis of the Socialization Process from a Macrostructural Perspective
• 11 Mother–Infant Interactions of Haitian Immigrants and Black Americans Living in Miami
• 12 Family Relationships and Patterns of Childrearing in the Caribbean
• 13 Parenting in Polynesia: A View from the Marquesas
• 14 The Parent–Infant Relationship and Social-Emotional Development Among Aka Pygmies
• 15 The Cultural Context of Socialization: A Much Ignored Issue!
• Author Index
• Subject Index