Peggy J Miller, Grace E Cho

Self-Esteem in Time and Place

How American Families Imagine, Enact, and Personalize a Cultural Ideal

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Self-Esteem in Time and Place reveals how self-esteem became a touchstone of American childrearing in the early years of the 21st century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780199959723
• ISBN-10: 0199959722
• Artikelnr.: 48742388

Autorenporträt

Peggy J. Miller is Professor Emerita in the Departments of Psychology and Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a developmental cultural psychologist whose scholarship bridges disciplines in search of a culture-inclusive understanding of human development. She has written extensively on early socialization, personal narrative, and ethnographic methods. Grace E. Cho is Associate Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at St. Olaf College. She is also faculty in the Family Studies and the Gender Studies Programs. Located at the intersection of developmental psychology, family studies, and cultural psychology, her research focuses on the sociocultural factors and parenting processes that shape children's emotional and self development.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section I: Histories
Chapter 1 Origins of the Self-Esteem Imaginary
Chapter 2 The Age of Self-Esteem
Section II: Beliefs
Chapter 3 A Chorus of Parental Voices
Chapter 4 Nuanced and Dissenting Voices
Section III: Practices
Chapter 5 Praise and Affirmation
Chapter 6 Discipline
Chapter 7 Child-Affirming Artifacts
Section IV: Persons
Chapter 8 Emily Parker and Her Family
Chapter 9 Eric Prewitt and His Family
Chapter 10 Charisse Jackson and Her Family
Chapter 11 Brian Tatler and His Family
Chapter 12 Commentary: Personalization
Chapter 13 Conclusions
Appendix A: Methods for the Millennial Study
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index