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Culture and the Perceived Organization of Newborn Behavior: A Comparative Study in Kenya and the United States
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Super, Charles M.; Harkness, Sara – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
The behavior of newborns is ambiguous. Cultural models--representations shared by members of a community--provide new parents and others with a cognitive and motivational structure to understand them. This study asks members of several cultural groups (total n = 100) to judge the "similarity" of behavioral items in the Neonatal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neonates, Infant Behavior, Cultural Differences
The Cultural Context of Gender Segregation in Children's Peer Groups.
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Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M. – 1983
Recent American research has explored developmental trends in gender segregation of children's peer groups. However, it is important to differentiate systematic trends in children from systematic changes in their environments. This report, based on data gathered from 1972 to 1975, presents evidence on gender segregation in Kipsigis children's peer…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries
The Developmental Niche: A Conceptualization at the Interface of Child and Culture.
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Super, Charles M.; Harkness, Sara – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1986
Introduces the concept of "developmental niche" as a framework for examining the cultural structuring of child development. Focuses on (1) anthropological perspectives on human development, (2) psychology and the environment, (3) subsystems and other aspects of the developmental niche, and (4) changes which occur in niches as individuals…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Child Rearing
The Cultural Context of Gender Segregation in Children's Peer Groups.
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Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M. – Child Development, 1985
Reveals no gender segregation in peer groups until age six, through observations of 152 rural Kenyan children, 18 months to nine years of age. Developmental trends in gender segregation of children's peers are correlated with systematic changes in their environments. (Author/AS)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Developmental Stages, Environmental Influences, Expectation