CAS AN 290 Chapter Notes -Cultural Mediation, Psychosexual Development, Oral Stage
15 Sep 2014
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Child care and culture -- lessons from africa. A population perspective on child development focus on species-specific and person-specific characteristics of humans. By gusii standards, normal american children are excessively assertive and unruly . 3 boxes at the top summarizes a kind of condition and an explanatory model of parental behavior. Black arrow on the left of figure 1. 1 represents the explanatory model in which the organic equipment of the human animal provides the primary structure and meaning to parenthood everywhere regardless of history and culture. Middle black arrow represents the position that reproductive and parental behavior reflects primarily the socioeconomic conditions of childbearing and family life, with populations at a particular technological and demographic state, and a particular social location . The working model we have adopted is indicated by the white arrows and is based on the concept of cultural mediation and the hardware - software analogy .
