First Steps Toward Cultural Difference: Socialization in Infant/Toddler Day Care

by Darla Ferris Miller

Examining day care from a sociological standpoint, Darla Miller demonstrates, using studies of the staff/child interrelationships in several day care centers, how each center socializes its children in accordance with the values, attitudes, and folk ideologies of the socioeconomic status and social class of the parents.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878683518
• ISBN13: 9780878683512
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
• Length: 111 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

An intriguing study.

Miller explores differences between expectations and socialization between children attending day care who hail from poverty (barely getting by/helped along by Social Services), middle class (teachers, janitors, salesmen, factory workers, etc.), upper class (doctors, lawyers, etc.), and ultra class (millionaires) homes. After reading this qualitative study, you will see that expectations when children grow into adults and the necessary skills that will facilitate such a transition emerge as the main reasons why all children do not succeed in day care. It's a superb read.