Childhood Socialization

This 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

Theron Alexander

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