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Socialization and cognition in children between the age of 18 and 24 months

✍ Scribed by Guillain, André ;Foxonet, Charles ;Petersen, Arne ;Ramos, Michel

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Weight
192 KB
Volume
6
Category
Article
ISSN
1057-3593

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✦ Synopsis

A cross-cultural study of mother±child dyads was set up to test the hypothesis that sociocultural differences, mediated by variations of maternal intervention, influence the way in which the child manipulates objects and, thereby, his cognitive and social competences. Two series of observations were conducted with three groups of children aged 18±24 months (15 from the American middle class, 15 from French families and 15 from North African familiesÐthe last two groups both underprivileged): (a) naturalistic' observations of two systems of interaction (child±mother and child±children interaction) showed that each child is characterized by one type of object manipulation (protected, induced, activated or autonomous) and that maternal intervention varies with the sociocultural background; assessment of the child's behavioural sequences unravelled his strategies for solving and avoiding conflicts with his peers; (b) observations of the child with a standardized material permitted an evaluation of his cognitive competences for spontaneous problem-solving. Regarding the assumptions of our hypothesis, the results furnish the following conclusions: (1) social and cognitive competences are related to the object manipulation type. In all samples, children characterized by activated' and `autonomous' manipulation obtain the better results; (2) maternal intervention differs among the samples depending on the sociocultural background; these differences (limitation and physical contact) do not correspond to differences in types of manipulation; (3) type of manipulation is an interactive construction; it characterizes the functioning of the mother±child dyad and its prevailing dynamics between permanence and change. '

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