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The article focuses on the socialization process in Papago Indian Society. The Papago, about ten thousand in number, live by cattle ranching and floodwater farming on a two and three quarter million acre Federal reservation eighty miles west of Tucson, Arizona. The reservation is the center of a physiographic zone known as the Sonoran desert. There are six major structural features of the process of socialization in Papago society. These may be enumerated as the pattern of reward and punishment, the pattern of social deference, the pattern of joint sharing of family work, the pattern of supernatural sanctions as controls of disruptive and physically dangerous behavior, the pattern of similarity of expected social behavior for adults and children and the pattern of treatment of the child as a person. Outstanding among these is the pattern of reward and punishment used by adults to elicit desired social behavior from the maturing child. There are few specific, overt techniques of using punishment as a motivation or the child to learn appropriate social behavior. |
