Socialization as Cultural Communication

Development of a Theme in the Work of Margaret Mead

Theodore Schwartz

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780520311848
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Antropologia culturale e sociale

Margaret Mead has had much recognition in the professional community as past president of American Anthropological Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A bibliography of her works alone will fill a volume. This book develops but one central theme form her work--the processes of cultural transmission. In keeping with the interdisciplinary focus of Ethos and with the interdisciplinary relevant of Margaret Mead's work, scholars of diverse fields--anthropology, sociology, psychology, psychiatry, and primatology--were invited to contribute articles on suggested topics related to the thems of socialization as cultural communication. --From the Introduction

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Biographical Sketch of Margaret Mead
• Margaret Mead and the Study of Socialization
• Growing Up in a Monkey Group
• Learning What Comes Naturally: The Role of Life Experience in the Establishment of Species Typical Behavior
• Some Components of Socialization for Trance
• Absent Eyes and Idle Hands: Socialization for Low Affect among the Sebei
• Affective Dissonance and Primary Socialization: Implications for a Theory of Incest Avoidance
• Aloofness and Intimacy of Husbands and Wives: A Cross-Cultural Study
• Dream Concepts of Hausa Children: A Critique of the “Doctrine of Invariant Sequence" in Cognitive Development
• Resilience in Cognitive Development
• Theorizing about Socialization of Cognition
• A Conjunctive Pattern in Middle Class Informal and Formal Education
• Time: History versus Chronicle; Socialization as Cultural Preexperience
• Eidos and Change: Continuity in Process, Discontinuity in Product
• Relations among Generations in Time-Limited Cultures
• Becoming Modern: Individual Change in Six Developing Countries