Social structural expansion, economic diversification, and concentration of emphases in childhood socialization: a preliminary test of value transmission hypotheses

Ethos • Vol/Iss. 12 • Published In 1984 • Pages: 363-382 •

By Welch, Michael R.

Abstract

This article investigates the relationship between economic type and socialization of children. The author focuses on the concentration of value emphases in childhood socialization--that is, whether children are instilled with several different value orientations rather than just one or two. Value concentration is examined alongside subsistence technology and economic diversification; attention is also paid to gender differences.

Samples
Sample Used	Coded Data	Comment
Other	Other Researchers	Barry, Child, and Bacon (1967) and EA

Hypotheses (2)
Hypothesis	Supported
Where a society's subsistence economy generates a more complex form of social organization, there will be a lower concentration of value emphases in children's socialization (p. 365).	Partially supported
Societies with more diversified subsistence economies will have a lower concentration of value emphases in children's socialization (p. 366).	Not Supported

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Social structural expansion, economic diversification, and concentration of emphases in childhood socialization: a preliminary test of value transmission hypotheses

Ethos • Vol/Iss. 12 • Published In 1984 • Pages: 363-382 • Cite

By Welch, Michael R.

Abstract

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Hypotheses (2)

Ethos • Vol/Iss. 12 • Published In 1984 • Pages: 363-382 •