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- Title
COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF SOCIALIZATION: A REVIEW ESSAY.
- Authors
Kerckhoff, Alan C.
- Abstract
The article gives information about various books. Urie Bronfenbrenner's "Two Worlds of Childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R.," exemplified some basic issues in the comparative study of socialization which will require the careful consideration of many talented behavioral scientists. The basic thrust of the book is to point up the greater collective involvement in child- rearing in the U.S.S.R. than in the U.S. and to use observations of the Russian case to justify changes in the American socialization process. On the first page, Bronfenbrenner offers a criterion for judging the worth of a society: "the concern of one generation for the next." Bronfenbrenner reports considerable continuity of experience between the family on the one hand and the collective settings of the nursery and the school on the other. Not only do families approve of the goals and methods of the other agents of socialization: similar methods of control are used in both, though on a more individual basis in the family.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGY education; TWO Worlds of Childhood (Book); BRONFENBRENNER, Urie, 1917-2005; BEHAVIORAL scientists; FAMILIES; SOCIALIZATION
- Publication
Social Forces, 1970, Vol 49, Issue 2, p309
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2576532