Parental Ethnotheories, Social Practice and the Culture-Specific Development of Social Smiling in Infants
| Autor: | Manfred Holodynski, Joscha Kärtner, Viktoriya Wörmann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Cultural Studies
Social Psychology Socioemotional selectivity theory Cognitive Neuroscience Social change Context (language use) Social practice Child development Language and Linguistics Education Developmental psychology Argument Anthropology Cultural diversity Developmental and Educational Psychology Emotional expression Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Mind, Culture, and Activity. 20:79-95 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7884 1074-9039 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10749039.2012.742112 |
| Popis: | In this article we argue that current theories on socioemotional development during infancy need to be reconceptualized in order to account for cross-cultural variation in caregiver–infant interaction. In line with the cultural-historical internalization theory of emotional development (Holodynski & Friedlmeier, 2006) and the ecocultural model of development (Keller & Kartner, 2013), we argue that socioemotional development can be understood only in the context of social practice and underlying ethnotheories that give significance to infants' emotional expressions. Thus, culture-specific interpretations of and expectations concerning infants' expressive cues lead to culture-specific interactional routines. These, in turn, lead to culture-specific usage of these expressions by the developing child. To develop our argument, we focus on a specific aspect of early socioemotional development, namely, the emergence of social smiling during infancy. Interactional dynamics in autonomous cultural milieus are based... |
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