Social Development as Preference Management: How Infants, Children, and Parents Get What They Want from One Another

ISBN-13: 9780521119504 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 388 str.

Rachel Karniol

Opis

This engaging book presents social development in children through the language of preference management. Conversational excerpts garnered from around the world trace how parents talk about preferences, how infants and children s emergent language conveys their preferences, how children themselves are impacted by others preferences, and how they in turn influence the preferences of adults and peers. The language of preferences is used to crack into altruism, aggression, and morality, which are ways of coming to terms with other people s preferences. Behind the scenes is a cognitive engine that uses transformational thought conducting temporal, imaginal, and mental transformations to figure out other people s preferences and to find more sophisticated means of outmaneuvering others by persuading them and playing with one s own mind and other people s minds when preferences are blocked. This book is a unique and sometimes amusing must-read for anyone interested in child development, language acquisition, socialization, and communication."

Recenzje

"....Karniol has indeed provided an important resource in the study of human development. Researchers will find a wealth of ideas for investigation, and practitioners with the fortitude to persist through a text that consists primarily of descriptions of child–adult conversations rather than descriptions of effective strategies for fostering social development will find valuable insights regarding strategies that can foster the development of transformational thought as well as coping and self-regulation.... Karniol’s book should be required reading in the preparation of researchers interested in child development and recommended reading for educational practitioners. Most important, readers will find her ideas provocative and will be challenged to think about the nature of social development generally and to ponder the question of the appropriateness of the prominence of preferences in our interactions with others and in our conceptions of our identity."
– Patricia T. Ashton and Ana Carolina Useche, PsycCRITIQUES

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The baby 'preference game'; 2. Children's expression of preferences; 3. Emerging meta-preferences; 4. Other people's preferences; 5. Parenting and preference management; 6. Channeling children's preferences; 7. Temporizing preferences; 8. Restricting children's preferences; 9. Disciplining non-compliance; 10. Planes of transformational thought: temporal, imaginal, mental; 11. Manipulating others; 12. Coping and self-regulating; 13. Mind play: applying transformational thought; 14. Minding one's own versus others' preferences: altruism, aggression and morality; 15. Tying up.