How Socialization Happens on the Ground: Narrative Practices as Alternate Socializing Pathways in Taiwanese and European-American Families
March 2012, Wiley-Blackwell
II. Studying Personal Storytelling in Taipei and Longwood
III. Interpretive Frameworks in Routine Practices
IV. Participant Roles
V. Children Navigating Stories
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Peggy J Miller is Professor of Communication and Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has published extensively on socialization through everyday talk in diverse communities, with a focus on cultural and social class comparisons. Her research is interdisciplinary, drawing upon developmental psychology, cultural psychology, communication studies and anthropology.
Heidi Fung is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. She received her doctoral training in the Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago. Her research involves the socialization of emotion, daily disciplinary and moral training practices, and childrearing beliefs across cultures.
Shumin Lin is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University fo South Florida. She received her PhD in 2009 from the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is committed to understanding the role language plays in the processes of socialization across the lifespan and in the construction of social inequality.
Eva Chian-Hui Chen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the Benedictine College in Kansas. She received her PhD in developmental psychology in 2011 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on children's socialiation and women's lives in the context of transnational marriage families.
Benjamin R Boldt earned his BS degree from the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign with a double major in Psychology and Molecular and Cellular Biology.