Culture, Cognition, and Parenthood in Japanese and American Homes

• Material Type: 図書
• Title: Culture, Cognition, and Parenthood in Japanese and American Homes
• Author/Editor: by Saori Yasumoto.
• Author Heading: Yasumoto, Saori. [安元佐織]
• Publication, Distribution, etc.: Ann Arbor, MI : UMI
• Publication Date: [2010]
• Publication Date (W3CDTF): 2010
• Extent: 229 pages
• Size: 23 cm
• Degree grantor/type: Georgia State University
• Date Granted (W3CDTF): 2010
• Degree Type: Ph.D.
• Place of Publication (Country Code): US
• Text Language Code: eng
• Content Type: text
• Media Type: unmediated
• Carrier Type: volume
• Subject Heading: Culture; Cognition; Parenthood; Parental Philosophies; Cross-National Comparison; Intergenerational Family relationships
• NDLC: EC81
• Target Audience: 一般
• Note (General): Authorized facsimile, made from the microfilm master copy of the original dissertation or master thesis published by UMI.; UMI number: 3425849.
• Note (Content): Previous family researchers have found that parents who share different demographic backgrounds construct unique parenting styles and beliefs. Although such studies contribute to understanding how parenthood is socially constructed, the information about how parents internalize cultural information and everyday experiences to raise children is missing in the extant literature. To fully comprehend the social construction of parenthood, the linkage between the mind and the behavior of parents within specific social structures needed to be studied. I thus conducted conjoint interviews with 24 Japanese couples and 24 American couples who were raising four-to-six year old daughters and sons to examine how culture and cognition produce parental philosophies and family relationships.; By using cognitive sociology as a theoretical framework and grounded theory methods as a mode of analysis, I found that the parents’ construction of parenting beliefs and practices basically depended on how they thought about four analytically distinct relationships: (1) their relationship to their parents; (2) their relationship to their children; (3) their relationship to their marital partner; and (4) their relationship to other people in society. Although fathers and mothers in Japan and the United States talked in general about these four aspects, in the process of doing so they offered unique views on each aspect. Japanese parents tended to view their parents as role models, believe that children and parents teach and learn from each other, consider gender ideology to be the foundation of parental partnership, and rank understanding others' feelings as the most important skill for children.; Thus, their parenting philosophies were manufactured through reciprocal relationships with other people. In contrast, American parents tended to want to become better parents than their own parents, prefer to influence and control their children’s lives, consider equality to be the foundation of their
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• Call No.: EC81-B41
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• Bibliographic ID (NDL): 024104161; http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/024104161
• Cataloging Rule: RDA
• Bibliographic Record Category (NDL): 211