Lew-Levy, S, Lavi, N, Reckin, R, Cristobal-Azkarate, J and Ellis-Davies, K ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3835-6438, 2017. How do hunter-gatherer children learn social and gender norms? A meta-ethnographic review. Cross-Cultural Research. ISSN 1069-3971
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Abstract
Forager societies tend to value egalitarianism, cooperative autonomy, and sharing. Furthermore, foragers exhibit a strong gendered division of labor. However, few studies have employed a cross-cultural approach to understand how forager children learn social and gender norms. To address this gap, we perform a meta-ethnography, which allows for the systematic extraction, synthesis, and comparison of quantitative and qualitative publications. In all, 77 publications met our inclusion criteria. These suggest that sharing is actively taught in infancy. In early childhood, children transition to the playgroup, signifying their increased autonomy. Cooperative behaviors are learned through play. At the end of middle childhood, children self-segregate into same-sex groups and begin to perform gender-specific tasks. We find evidence that foragers actively teach children social norms, and that, with sedentarization, teaching, through direct instruction and task assignment, replaces imitation in learning gendered behaviors. We also find evidence that child-to-child transmission is an important way children learn cultural norms, and that noninterference might be a way autonomy is taught. These findings can add to the debate on teaching and learning within forager populations.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Publication Title: | Cross-Cultural Research |
Creators: | Lew-Levy, S., Lavi, N., Reckin, R., Cristobal-Azkarate, J. and Ellis-Davies, K. |
Publisher: | Sage |
Date: | 23 August 2017 |
ISSN: | 1069-3971 |
Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1177/1069397117723552 DOI |
Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences |
Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher |
Date Added: | 20 Oct 2017 08:36 |
Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2017 08:42 |
URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/31841 |
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