Learning The Rules
The Anatomy Of Children's Relationships
1st Edition
Published on 5. September 1996
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-1-57230-084-2 (ISBN)
Description
Reporting what children themselves say about their personal and social relationships, this book illuminates the personal constructions children use to order their interpersonal worlds, as well as the actual content and meaning of their relationships. In its interpretation of children's verbalized social rules with parents, siblings, peers, and teachers, the book provides a contextually informed framework from which to explore such issues as the impact of parental authority on child compliance, sibling rivalry, close friendships, and disclosure.
Reviews / Votes
"Makes an important contribution to the literature on communication and children...also highlights the need for the communication field to increase its attention towards children....Learning the Rules breaks new ground....The book offers an interesting, first look at the complexities of children learning to manage rules in diverse relationships and raises many interesting questions for future work." - -Communication Education"This book offers noteworthy contributions to both the field of child development and to the emerging field of personal and social relationships. The authors have completed groundbreaking...research, resulting in new descriptive data about children's family and peer relationships, from the perspective of children themselves....The rich semantic map of rules and rationales revealed by [the authors] will provide a descriptive foundation for research on school-age children's relationships for years to come." - -Contemporary Psychology
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Weight
607 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57230-084-2 (9781572300842)
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Content
Preface
1. Social Competency and Friendships in Middle Childhood: Lord of the Flies Revisited
2. Social Rules and the Implicate Order: Toward a Sociology of Childhood
3. Phenomenology and Relationships: The Birth of Social Rules
4. The Rules and with Whom They Are Used: Compliance and Autonomy
5. The Rules and with Whom They Are Used: Self-Control and Conflict Management
6. The Rules and with Whom They Are Used: Mutual Activities and Obligation
7. Social Competency and the Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Importance of Parents
8. Siblings: The Relationship You Don't Have to Earn to Keep
9. Social Rule Rationales: The Child as a Relationship Philosopher
10. Concluding Remarks
Appendix 1: Extracting the Social Rules from Interviewing
Appendix 2: The Recursive Interview Protocol
Appendix 3: Data Analysis
1. Social Competency and Friendships in Middle Childhood: Lord of the Flies Revisited
2. Social Rules and the Implicate Order: Toward a Sociology of Childhood
3. Phenomenology and Relationships: The Birth of Social Rules
4. The Rules and with Whom They Are Used: Compliance and Autonomy
5. The Rules and with Whom They Are Used: Self-Control and Conflict Management
6. The Rules and with Whom They Are Used: Mutual Activities and Obligation
7. Social Competency and the Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Importance of Parents
8. Siblings: The Relationship You Don't Have to Earn to Keep
9. Social Rule Rationales: The Child as a Relationship Philosopher
10. Concluding Remarks
Appendix 1: Extracting the Social Rules from Interviewing
Appendix 2: The Recursive Interview Protocol
Appendix 3: Data Analysis