The child and the family: interdependence in developmental pathways
Open Access
- 1 April 2000
- journal article
- Published by FapUNIFESP (SciELO) in Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa
- Vol. 16 (1), 11-22
- https://doi.org/10.1590/s0102-37722000000100003
Abstract
This contribution focuses on the family as the major context for children's development, it includes concepts of the family as an institution for the transmission of meaning on the one hand, and it formulates implications for new theoretical and methodological approaches in the field of family research on the other. The idea of transmission of a society's meaning system via the family is discussed under the perspective that the socialization of children in the family provides a continuous basis for the aggregation of common knowledge over generations. The systems approach is taken as a promising model for dealing with the complex continuity and change issues during development. Data will be presented from two longitudinal studies, in which parent-child communication behavior was analyzed over time during two critical developmental periods, during the first two years after the birth of a second child and during the transition from childhood to adolescenceKeywords
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