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Relation of Child Training to Subsistence Economy

Relation of Child Training to Subsistence Economy MARGARET K. BACON Yale University ROSS-CULTURAL research on child training has generally grown out of an interest in how the typical personality of a people is brought into being. The customary child training practices of a group are thought to be one important set of influences responsible for the typical personality, and hence an important clue in tracing its causal background. But the typical personality may also be viewed as an existing set of conditions which may exert an influence on later child training practices. Indeed, any present feature of culture may influence future child training practices, either directly or through an influence on typical personality. Thus child training may just as well, and with equal interest of another sort, be viewed as effect in a series of cultural events, rather than as cause (being in fact, we presume, both a t once). Moreover, even while considering child training as a cause of the typical personality of a people, one is led to inquire: Why does a particular society select child training practices which will tend to produce this particular kind of typical personality? Is it because this kind of typical personality is functional for the adult life http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Anthropologist Wiley

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Wiley
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1959 American Anthropological Association
ISSN
0002-7294
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1548-1433
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10.1525/aa.1959.61.1.02a00080
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MARGARET K. BACON Yale University ROSS-CULTURAL research on child training has generally grown out of an interest in how the typical personality of a people is brought into being. The customary child training practices of a group are thought to be one important set of influences responsible for the typical personality, and hence an important clue in tracing its causal background. But the typical personality may also be viewed as an existing set of conditions which may exert an influence on later child training practices. Indeed, any present feature of culture may influence future child training practices, either directly or through an influence on typical personality. Thus child training may just as well, and with equal interest of another sort, be viewed as effect in a series of cultural events, rather than as cause (being in fact, we presume, both a t once). Moreover, even while considering child training as a cause of the typical personality of a people, one is led to inquire: Why does a particular society select child training practices which will tend to produce this particular kind of typical personality? Is it because this kind of typical personality is functional for the adult life

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American Anthropologist – Wiley

Published: Feb 1, 1959

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