PSYCH 3JJ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Environmental Modification Convention, Reciprocal Liking, Parenting Styles
11 Dec 2019
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The family is a complex system made up of several subsystems that are interrelated and influence the child"s social well-being. Aspects of the family system that can be influential include parental conflict, parenting styles, family structure, birth order, family rituals and routines. The family has undergone many changes (e. g. increased divorce, adoption), which have varying degrees of influence on children"s social development. Chapter 8: peers: a world of their own. 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 behaviour found within and between societies.
