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New edition of this bestselling undergraduate textbook, adopted in sociology and education departments throughout the world.
Children's Peer Cultures and Interpretive Reproduction
Children's Peer Cultures and Interpretive Reproduction
Examining Peer Culture from Children's Perspective
As we discussed in Chapter 1, a major change in children's lives is their move outside the family. As we have seen, the timing and nature of children's movement from the family into a society of peers varies over time and across cultures. In discussing these issues, I am using the term peers specifically to refer to that cohort or group of children who spend time together on an everyday basis. My focus is on local peer cultures that are produced and shared primarily through face-to-face interaction. (Of course, such local cultures are part of more general groups of children, which can be defined in terms of age ...
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