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Agency and structure in the life-world of Aboriginal children in Central Australia
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In this article, the authors focus on children's play and adult-child interaction in the remote community of Ernabella, the oldest settlement in the A n angu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjata (APY) Lands, northern South Australia, and suggest that it is precisely the relatively low level of direct instruction and reprimand by adults that fosters children's ability to pattern their behaviour in relation to one another and to structure their social world and understandings according to the meanings that they co-create.About:
This article is published in Children and Youth Services Review.The article was published on 2011-04-01. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Agency (sociology) & Structure and agency.read more
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Gender Norms and the Economy: Insights from Social Research
Rebecca Pearse,Raewyn Connell +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examines the concept of gender norms and summarizes key insights from sociology and other social sciences and concludes that norms do not float free: they are materialized in specific domains of social life and are often embedded in institutions.
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How do hunter-gatherer children learn social and gender norms? A meta-ethnographic review
Sheina Lew-Levy,Noa Lavi,Rachel Reckin,Jurgi Cristóbal-Azkarate,Kate Ellis-Davies,Kate Ellis-Davies +5 more
TL;DR: Forager societies tend to value egalitarianism, cooperative autonomy, and sharing, and foragers exhibit a strong gendered division of labor as mentioned in this paper, however, few studies have employed a cross-cultural approach to understand how forager children learn social and gender norms.
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'Hear our stories': child-rearing practices of a remote Australian Aboriginal community.
TL;DR: Three main interlinked themes were identified through this research: 'fitting in' (integration of children into community life), 'growing up' (children's development) and 'staying strong' ( children's autonomy within a communal social structure).
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Children's agency in interprofessional collaborative meetings in child welfare work
TL;DR: The concept of children's agency can be used to understand how children actively shape their lives as mentioned in this paper, while in social work there is a growing body of research on how children experience meetings that...
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Children’s agency in interprofessional collaboration
TL;DR: There is currently little research into social welfare interventions where children's agency has been in focus and, in particular, a lack of research on children's experiences and perceptions of in....
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The Structures of the Life-World
TL;DR: In this paper, the structure of what Husserl calls the "life-world" (Lebenswelt) is considered, in which, in the natural attitude, we, as human beings among fellow-beings, experience culture and society, take a stand with regard to their objects, are influenced by them and act upon them.
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The sociology of childhood
TL;DR: In this article, a sociological study of childhood is presented, focusing on the structure of childhood and children's Interpretive Reproductions in the context of social change, families and children.
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Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place, and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines
TL;DR: The Pintupi, a hunting-and-gathering people of Australia's Western Desert, were among the last Aborigines to come into contact with white society as discussed by the authors.