Table of contents:
Preface
1. Social Competency and Friendships in Middle Childhood: Lord of the Flies Revisited
2. Social Rules and the Implicate Order: Toward a Sociology of Childhood
3. Phenomenology and Relationships: The Birth of Social Rules
4. The Rules and with Whom They Are Used: Compliance and Autonomy
5. The Rules and with Whom They Are Used: Self-Control and Conflict Management
6. The Rules and with Whom They Are Used: Mutual Activities and Obligation
7. Social Competency and the Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Importance of Parents
8. Siblings: The Relationship You Don't Have to Earn to Keep
9. Social Rule Rationales: The Child as a Relationship Philosopher
10. Concluding Remarks
Appendix 1: Extracting the Social Rules from Interviewing
Appendix 2: The Recursive Interview Protocol
Appendix 3: Data Analysis
Reporting what children themselves say about their personal and social relationships, this book illuminates the personal constructions children use to order their interpersonal worlds, as well as the actual content and meaning of their relationships. In its interpretation of children's verbalized social rules with parents, siblings, peers, and teachers, the book provides a contextually informed framework from which to explore such issues as the impact of parental authority on child compliance, sibling rivalry, close friendships, and disclosure.
This book provides a contextually informed framework from which to explore such issues as the impact of parental authority on child compliance, sibling rivalry, close friendships, and disclosure.
Preface
1. Social Competency and Friendships in Middle Childhood: Lord of the Flies Revisited
2. Social Rules and the Implicate Order: Toward a Sociology of Childhood
3. Phenomenology and Relationships: The Birth of Social Rules
4. The Rules and with Whom They Are Used: Compliance and Autonomy
5. The Rules and with Whom They Are Used: Self-Control and Conflict Management
6. The Rules and with Whom They Are Used: Mutual Activities and Obligation
7. Social Competency and the Sorcerer's Apprentice: The Importance of Parents
8. Siblings: The Relationship You Don't Have to Earn to Keep
9. Social Rule Rationales: The Child as a Relationship Philosopher
10. Concluding Remarks
Appendix 1: Extracting the Social Rules from Interviewing
Appendix 2: The Recursive Interview Protocol
Appendix 3: Data Analysis
Reporting what children themselves say about their personal and social relationships, this book illuminates the personal constructions children use to order their interpersonal worlds, as well as the actual content and meaning of their relationships. In its interpretation of children's verbalized social rules with parents, siblings, peers, and teachers, the book provides a contextually informed framework from which to explore such issues as the impact of parental authority on child compliance, sibling rivalry, close friendships, and disclosure.
This book provides a contextually informed framework from which to explore such issues as the impact of parental authority on child compliance, sibling rivalry, close friendships, and disclosure.