Dr' Maynards website:

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Dr. Maynards website

• www2.hawaii.edu/amaynard

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Social Development

• What is social development? And why is it
  important?
• Socialization
• 3 controversies in child development
• Methods

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1. What is social development?

• What kinds of things are social?
• What about for infants?
• Young children?
• Older children?
• Adolescents?

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1b. Why is social development important?
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2. What is socialization?

• Acquisition of
• Beliefs
• Values
• Behaviors
• Who socializes children?
• - Parents, peers, school teachers, clergy, etc.
  
• - Institutions

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2. What is socialization?

• Socialization has three important functions
• Regulates behavior
• Promotes individual growth
• Perpetuates social order

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3. Three controversies in child development

• Nature vs. nurture
• Active vs. passive child
• Continuity vs. discontinuity

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4. Methods

• Interviews
• Structured, semi-structured, clinical (usu.
  driven by a hypothesis)
• Questionnaires
• Observations
• Naturalistic observations
• Time-sampling
• Case studies
• Ethnography

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Time sampling with a group of children Abused
vs. nonabused (3 sessions, 10 mins., 3 different
days)
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Ethnography

• Rich description of cultural beliefs, values, and
  traditions.
• Investigator often spends years in a field site.

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More methodsExperimental and correlational
designs

• Experimental designs
• Independent variable
• Treatment we expose subjects to (e.g., show them
  TV), or some attribute of participants (e.g.,
  age, gender)
• Dependent variable
• The Data
• Reactions, response, performance, etc.

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The quasi-experiment

• natural experiment
• We can study the impact of natural events that
  would be difficult to simulate in an experiment.
  
• E.g.,
• a group of children in impoverished institutions
• a group of children who have gone to school
  compared with those who have not

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Correlations

• Are these variables meaningfully related?
• Of coursenot necessarily causally related.