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This monograph builds upon our cumulative efforts to investigate personal storytelling as a medium of socialization in two disparate cultural worlds. Drawing upon interdisciplinary fields of study that take a discourse-centered approach to socialization, we combined ethnography, longitudinal home observations, and micro-level analysis of everyday talk to study this problem in Taiwanese families in Taipei and European-American families in Longwood, Chicago. Comparative analyses of 192 hours, of video-recorded observations revealed that convserational stories of young children's past experiences occurred in both sites at remarkably similar rates and continued apace across the age span, yielding nearly 900 narrations. Thse and other similarities coexisted with differences in culturall salient interpretive frameworks and participant roles, forming distinct socializating pathways. The Taipei families enacted a didactic framework, prolifically and elaborately narrating and correcting children's misdeeds. These findings open a window on how socialization operates on the ground: Socialization through personal storytelling is a highly dynamic process in which redundancy and variation are conjoined and children participate as active, creative, affectively engaged meaning makers.Product Identifiers
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons INC International Concepts
ISBN-139781118360644
eBay Product ID (ePID)114361444
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Number of Pages300 Pages
Publication NameHow Socialization Happens on the Ground: Narrative Practices as Alternate Socializing Pathways in Taiwanese and European-American Families
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2012
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaChildren & Family, Developmental Psychology
AuthorPeggy J. Miller, Eva Chian-Hui Chen, Shumin Lin, Heidi Fung, Benjamin Boldt
SeriesMonographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (Mono)
Dimensions
Item Height226 mm
Item Weight212 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorBenjamin Boldt, Shumin Lin, Eva Chian-Hui Chen, Peggy J. Miller, Heidi Fung