WHERE IS THE CHILDS ENVIRONMENT - A GROUP SOCIALIZATION THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT

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HARRIS, JR
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[1] Middletown, NJ 07748
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10.1037/0033-295X.102.3.458
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
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Do parents have any important long-term effects on the development of their child's personality? This article examines the evidence and concludes that the answer is no. A new theory of development is proposed: that socialization is context-specific and that outside-the-home socialization takes place in the peer groups of childhood and adolescence. Intra- and intergroup processes, not dyadic relationships, are responsible for the transmission of culture and for environmental modification of children's personality characteristics. The universality of children's groups explains why development is not derailed by the wide variations in parental behavior found within and between societies.
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