Title: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS OF CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT – NORMATIVE SETTINGS, PRACTICES, AND CONSEQUENCES
Abstract: The material in this section leads to encounters with the old anthropological problem of how to evaluate culturally normative conditions and practices. Concerning pathways in human development, how many roads lead to Rome? What makes a practice “good” or “right” for a child? Hence, Glover responds to Briggs's case study about Inuit use of teasing and shaming for early child socialization by asking “whether the type of upbringing described will really help young Inuit children adapt successfully to their future life.” Similarly, Kirmayer notes the “urgency to understand cultural variations in parenting practices and healthy developmental trajectories.”
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-04-07
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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