Description
Book SynopsisThis collection of authoritative studies portrays how the A basic agencies of socialization transform the newborn human organism into a social person capable of interacting with others. Socialization differs from one society to another and within any society from one segment to another. Childhood Socialization samples some of that variation, giving the reader a glimpse of socialization in contexts other than those with which he or she is likely to be familiar.
In the years since publication of the first edition of this book in 1988, childhood has become a territory open to broader sociological investigation. In this revised edition, Gerald Handel has selected and gathered new contributions that analyze the agents of socialization, including family, school, and peer group,, and explore the influences of television and gender. The balance of classical studies and more recent work reflecting changes in the family structure renews the centrality of this anthology for cour
Table of Contents
I: Socialization, Individuation, and the Self; 1: Socialization and Individuation; 2: Socialization and the Social Self; II: Childhood in History; 3: Little Angels, Little Devils: A Sociology of Children; III: Families as Socializing Agents; 4: The Mutuality of Parental Control in Early Childhood; 5: As the Twig Is Bent: Children Reared in Feminist Households; 6: Racial Socialization; IV: Day Care and Nursery School as Socialization Agents; 7: Power and Resistance in Infant-Toddler Day Care Centers; 8: Cooperation and Control in Japanese Nursery Schools; V: Schools as Socialization Agents; 9: Schools and Socialization; VI: Peer Groups as Socialization Agents; 10: Children’s Conception and Reaction to Adult Rules: The Underlife of the Nursery School; 11: The Carpool: A Socializing Adjunct to the Educational Experience , †; 12: Friends, Impression Management, and Preadolescent Behavior; VII: Television and Its Influence; 13: Theoretical Perspectives; 14: Children’s Desires/Mothers’ Dilemmas: The Social Contexts of Consumption; VIII: Gender Socialization; 15: Engendering Children; 16: Male Gender Socialization and the Perpetration of Sexual Abuse; IX: Social Stratification and Inequality in Socialization; 17: Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth; 18: Clashes in Values; 19: Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work
