Cultural Variation in Children's Social Organization

This article examines how 31 triads of 6- to 10-year-old children from 3 cultural backgrounds organized their interactions while folding Origami figures. Triads of children whose families had immigrated to the United States from indigenous heritage regions of M6xico (and whose mothers averaged only...

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Published in:Child development 2007-05, Vol.78 (3), p.1001-1014
Main Authors: Mejía-Arauz, Rebeca, Rogoff, Barbara, Dexter, Amy, Najafi, Behnosh
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Art Activities
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child Behavior
Child care
Child development
Children
Children & youth
Communities
Comparative studies
Conversation
Cooperation
Correlation
Cultural Differences
Cultural studies
Culture
Developmental psychology
Dyadic relations
Dyadics
Empirical Articles
Europe
Europe - ethnology
Family
Foreign Countries
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Group Activities
Group dynamics
Heritage
Hispanic people
Humans
Immigrants
Immigration
Indigenous populations
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans - ethnology
Mexico
Mexico - ethnology
Mother-Child Relations
Mothers
Origami
Parent Background
Parenting
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
School age children
Schooling
Social Behavior
Social interaction
Social organization
Social research
Triads
U.S.A
United States
Videotape Recording
White people
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Summary:This article examines how 31 triads of 6- to 10-year-old children from 3 cultural backgrounds organized their interactions while folding Origami figures. Triads of children whose families had immigrated to the United States from indigenous heritage regions of M6xico (and whose mothers averaged only 7 grades of schooling) coordinated more often as an ensemble, whereas triads of European heritage U.S. children whose mothers had extensive schooling more often engaged dyadically or individually. When the European heritage children did engage as an ensemble, this often involved chatting rather than nonverbal conversation regarding folding, which was more common among the Mexican heritage children. Mexican heritage U.S. triads whose mothers had extensive schooling showed an intermediate pattern or resembled the European heritage children.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01046.x