CULTURE, CONTEXT AND SOCIALISATION

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CULTURE, CONTEXT AND SOCIALISATION
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LECTURE OUTLINE

• Introduction
• Culture and context as meaning
• Parental threat
• Parental control and acceptance
• Features of context
• Societal values
• Parental goals, beliefs, values
• The developmental niche
• Conclusions

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Parental Threat, Control and Acceptance

• Azuma (1986)
• Trommsdorff (1985)
• Lau and colleagues (1987, 1990)
• Kagitcabasi (1970)

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Features of context Societal values

• Childrens work
• Whiting and Whiting (1975)
• Nsamenang (1992)
• Value of Children Study

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Features of context Parental goals

• Achievement expectations
• Obedience and conformity
• Levine et al. (1994)
• Class differences
• Kohn (1969)

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Features of context Parental beliefs and values

• Maternal role perceptions
• (Shand, 1985)
• Parents as teachers
• (e.g., Chao, 1994 Laosa, 1980)

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The Developmental Niche(Super Harkness)
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The Developmental Niche Assumptions

• The childs environment is organised as part of a
  cultural system
• The child has an inborn disposition

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The Developmental Niche Subsystems

• Physical and social setting
• Culturally regulated customs of child-rearing
• Psychology of caregiver

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The Developmental Niche Operating Principles

• Three components operate as a system
• Each subsystem is functionally embedded in other
  aspects of human ecology
• Each subsystem is involved in a process of mutual
  adaptation with the individual child

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The Developmental Niche Framework for Empirical
Research

• Peer relations in Canada and China
• (Chen, Rubin Li, 1995)

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Concluding Questions

• Why is it important to understand human
  development in a cultural context?
• Can theory and research on culture and
  development be integrated into an over-arching
  conceptual framework?