SOC244H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Moral Authority, Secondary Sex Characteristic, Sandwich Generation
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Socialization practices are culture-specific as well as specific to the historical stage in which we live. Warmth and monitoring have been correlated with successful child and adolescent outcomes. Monitoring is related to lower rates of risky sexual activities among adolescents, fewer behaviour problems among early adolescents, and higher academic achievement parental monitoring is often affected when adolescents" problematic and delinquent behaviours increase. Thus, within an interactional perspective, authoritative parenting cannot prevent all problems authoritarian parenting style is the dimension of control, restriction, and, at the extreme, coercion: particularly among fathers rather than mothers, in some immigrant groups, characterized by inconsistency. Permissive & uninvolved parenting very few maturity demands on their children, who can behave very much as they wish. In north america, good parenting is synonymous with the authoritative style with decreasing control as adolescents age. Rather than value independence and creativity in their children, minority mothers frequently value obedience and respect for authority.
