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- Title
SOME SOCIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING CHILD DEVELOPMENT.
- Authors
Thomas, Franklin
- Abstract
The article highlights some sociological principles underlying child development. It attempts to formulate some sociological principles on the basis of methods and procedure observed in child care. A set-up for child development for research was created and it includes physical and factors related to children along with certain ideals, organizations, and policies. The set-up is an attempt to arrange a community-a situation where the child may function and develop in such a way as to satisfy the fundamental requirements of the social world in which he is to live, and where his inner urges may be directed into profitable channels. A important principle for child development is the full participation of the individual in the planning and functioning of the group. As a means of establishing order and enforcing regulations, self-government has not been conspicuously successful; but as a developer of qualities necessary in later life, its educational value is high. The author suggests that the normal evolution and primary group control should, wherever possible, supersede direct and autocratic personal control, which secures immediate results more effectively, but contributes little to the development of organic personality.
- Subjects
CHILD development research; SOCIAL conditions of children; CHILD care; QUALITY of life; CHILD development; CHILD psychology
- Publication
Social Forces, 1934, Vol 12, Issue 4, p508
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2569709