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When it first appeared in 1993, Barrie Thorne's Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School became an instant classic in the budding fields of feminist sociology and childhood studies. Through detailed first-hand observations of fourth and fifth graders at play, she investigated questions like: Why do girls and boys tend to self-segregate in the schoolyard? What can playful teasing and ritualized games like “cooties” and “chase and kiss” teach us about how children perform gendered identities? And how do children articulate their own conceptions of gender, distinct from those proscribed by the adult world? A detailed and perceptive ethnography told with compassion and humor, Gender Play immerses readers in the everyday lives of a group of working-class children to examine the social interactions that shape their gender identities. This new Rutgers Classic edition of Gender Play contains an introduction from leading sociologists of gender Michael A. Messner and Raewyn Connell that places Thorne's innovative research in historical context. It also includes a new afterword by one of Thorne's own students, acclaimed sociologist C.J. Pascoe, reflecting on both the lasting influence of Thorne's work and the ways that American children's understandings of gender have shifted in the past thirty years.

Andean communities occupy a special place in the history of anthropology, having given shape to fundamental theories of kinship, peasant economics, Indigenous medical systems, ritual life and others. Yet children have been shortchanged in research and theory building. Care and Agency, based on detailed ethnographies of six towns in the province of Yauyos, restores children to a central research position. Contemporary children's studies emphasize children's agency and autonomy, and these take surprising forms under the conditions of the rural Andes. At the same time, the book incorporates and extends current discussions of caregiving and its organization in human societies. Children in the Andes are involved in the care of each other, of adults, of animals, of the environment. The activities, sociality, and subjective states of children of different ages, genders, and social strata are variable in ways that make it impossible to speak of a single Andean childhood. The future they face is also uncertain, as the Peruvian nation stumbles through cycles of incompetent government whose common thread is the neglect of small-scale family farming and the welfare of rural populations. This book is a fascinating look at Andean childhood for anyone interested in the lives of children.

International migration is an increasingly critical issue in the world today. In the international community, individual nations are struggling with the question of how to effectively manage migration. Immigration involves several challenges at the individual level and in the relationship with the host community. Migration is one of the most disorganizing individual experiences; it affects identity and wellbeing as migrants negotiate roles and cultural values. At the social level, immigration is related to relevant changes in community life as well as in the use of urban space and social welfare, and involves demographic, educational, and sociological aspects. In our society, various positions make migration a complex phenomenon. The author's intention is to open a dialogue concerning this crucial theme of human existence from the perspective of individual and collective experiences, as well as from the scientific position this phenomenon is analyzed. This book proposes several studies about migration and intercultural relationships from multiple viewpoints, and from a multidisciplinary perspective through psychological, educational, sociological, anthropological, historical and geographical approaches. Moreover, the book addresses the main theoretical frameworks that characterize the international debate and analyzes intercultural challenges and opportunities that may arise in different areas and at different stages of the life cycle. The main constructs this book addresses are acculturation, negotiation, and integration in various contexts (e.g., family, school, etc.) at different stages of life (e.g., minors, adolescents, parents, etc.). Furthermore, the book reflects on different typologies of migration (e.g., refugees, unaccompanied minors, etc.) and different methodologies to examine the phenomenon (e.g., videoethnography, in depth interviewing, questionnaires, territorial and space analysis, etc.). Intercultural Relations and Migration Processes present a complex, rich picture of these issues and the problems related to the phenomenon, in which experience and national research data are intertwined with the acquisition of experience gained in the international arena.

Wie erlernen Kinder Emotionen und welche Rolle spielt dabei ihre soziale und kulturelle Umwelt? Gabriel Scheidecker untersucht die - bisher primär in westlichen Kontexten erforschte - Sozialisation von Emotionen erstmals in Madagaskar. Auf der Basis einer 15-monatigen Feldforschung in einer ländlichen Region der Insel beschreibt er detailliert die emotionalen Erfahrungen von Kindern in Verbindung mit den Erziehungsidealen und -praktiken ihrer Bezugspersonen. Im Fokus steht die Ausbildung einer kulturspezifischen moralischen Furcht gegenüber den Eltern sowie die feine Ausdifferenzierung von Wut. Damit erweitert der Band die Forschung zur Emotionssozialisation um eine kulturanthropologische Perspektive.

Au centre de toute relation sociale entre des individus ou entre des groupes, des collectivités, la relation d'altérité fondant le Eux et le Nous recèle en elle-même un enjeu éthique dont ne peuvent s'abstraire les interventions cliniques et sociales. Si l'altérité procède des relations sociales où elle devient constitutive du lien social et pose la question de l'éthique de la relation à l'autre, elle prend une acuité particulière dans les sociétés dites « multiculturelles » où les valeurs des uns se mesurent à celles des autres, où individualisme et universalisme se confrontent, où le droit à la différence des individus prend inévitablement le risque de conduire à la différence des droits. Cet ouvrage est un recueil de réflexions et d'analyses ancrées dans l'étude des pratiques de l'intervention clinique et sociale en situation interethnique. Dans les sociétés pluralistes, les questions d'altérité culturelle ne peuvent être banalisées car dans l'intervention elles sont toujours étroitement liées à l'équité, à l'égalité et aux droits, soit à l'exercice même de la citoyenneté. L'altérité, au sens de la reconnaissance d'un autre que nous-mêmes, procède d'une construction historique, socialement située, au cours de laquelle les individus donnent un certain sens à leurs relations avec d'autres individus, s'octroient et assignent des positions, définissent des statuts et décident des droits pour eux-mêmes et ceux qui les entourent. Véritable dialectique du rapport à soi par cette reconnaissance d'un autre, elle peut se faire ouverture et source de construction identitaire plus riche mais également fermeture, pouvoir de réification ou d'exclusion.

To do research that really makes a difference—the authors of this book argue—social scientists need questions and methods that reflect the complexity of the world. Bringing together a consortium of voices across a variety of fields, Methods that Matter offers compelling and successful examples of mixed methods research that do just that. In case after case, the researchers here break out of the traditional methodological silos that have long separated social science disciplines in order to better describe the intricacies of our personal and social worlds. Historically, the largest division between social science methods has been that between quantitative and qualitative measures. For people trained in psychology or sociology, the bias has been toward the former, using surveys and experiments that yield readily comparable numerical results. For people trained in anthropology, it has been toward the latter, using ethnographic observations and interviews that offer richer nuances of meaning but are difficult to compare across societies. Discussing their own endeavors to combine the quantitative with the qualitative, the authors invite readers into a conversation about the best designs and practices of mixed methodologies to stimulate creative ideas and find new pathways of insight. The result is an engaging exploration of a promising new approach to the social sciences.