How Socialization Happens on the Ground: Narrative Practices as Alternate Socializing Pathways in Taiwanese and European-American Families

by Peggy J. Miller, Shumin LIN, Heidi Fung

This monograph builds upon our cumulative efforts to investigate personal storytelling as a medium of socialization in two disparate cultural worlds. Drawing upon interdisciplinary fields of study that take a discourse-centered approach to socialization, we combined ethnography, longitudinal home observations, and micro-level analysis of everyday talk to study this problem in Taiwanese families in Taipei and European-American families in Longwood,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118360648
• ISBN13: 9781118360644
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"