Friendship and Peer Culture in the Early Years

by William A. Corsaro

Book Overview

Based on a year-long micro-ethnography of a nursery school, this book presents a unique approach to childhood socialization by focusing directly upon the social, interactive, and communicative processes that make up the world of young children. It contains micro-sociolinguistic analyses of videotaped peer interactive episodes which are the basis of explanations of children's development and use of social concepts such as status, role, norms, and friendship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893911747
• ISBN13: 9780893911744
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"