The Role of Parents in the Socialization of Children: An Historical Overview.
@article{Maccoby1992TheRO, title={The Role of Parents in the Socialization of Children: An Historical Overview.}, author={Eleanor E. Maccoby}, journal={Developmental Psychology}, year={1992}, volume={28}, pages={1006-1017} }
The history of research on childhood socialization in the context of th e family is traced through the present century. The 2 major early theories—behaviorism and psychoanalytic theory—are described. These theories declined in mid-century, under the impact of failures to find empirical support. Simple reinforcement theory was seriously weakened by work on developmental psycholinguistics, attachment, modeling, and altruism. The field turne d to more domain-specific minitheories. The advent of…
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