FRHD 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Parenting Styles, Observational Learning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3040
• Professor: Robyn Pitman

Document Summary

Sociologist note that factors other than direct parent-to-child transmission contribute to the intergenerational similarities in attitudes that have been found. The emphasis on interaction has led us away from viewing parental behaviour as something that is done to or for children towards the view that it is done with children. In a bidirectional perspective, socialization is considered to be an ongoing process where both intergenerational differences and similarities are constructed. Direction of in uence: unidirectional: parent to child, bidirectional: interaction between parent and child. Involves not only reactions to immediate behaviours but also anticipations of the other"s future behaviours on the basis of past experiences. Products: unidirectional: implies that parents directly transmit a copy of their own values and other characteristics to their children. Friday, january 30, 2015: bidirectional: next section. Parents and children as interdependent, active agents in the process of mutual in uence. Does not provide a stable picture of values.