American Individualisms
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American Individualisms

Child Rearing and Social Class in Three Neighborhoods

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American Individualisms

Child Rearing and Social Class in Three Neighborhoods

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What are hard and soft individualisms? In this detailed ethnography of three communities in Manhattan and Queens, Kusserow interviews parents and teachers (from wealthy to those on welfare) on the types of hard and soft individualisms they encourage in their children and students. American Individualisms explores the important issue of class differences in the socialization of individualism in America. It presents American individualism not as one single homogeneous, stereotypic life-pattern as often claimed to be, but as variable, class-differentiated models of individualism instilled in young children by their parents and preschool teachers in Manhattan and Queens. By providing rich descriptions of the situational, class-based individualisms that take root in communities with vastly different visions of the future, Kusserow brings social inequality back into previously bland and generic discussions of American individualism.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9781403973986
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Forward
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter One: Ethnographic Method and Context
  6. Chapter Two: American Individualism and Social Class Revisited
  7. Chapter Three: Queenston and Kelley Ethnoconceptions of the Child’s Self: The Soft-Hard Continuum and Establishment of Firm Boundaries to the Self
  8. Chapter Four: Queenston Hard Protective Individualism vs. Kelley Hard Projective Individualism
  9. Chapter Five: Individualism and Ethnoconceptions of the Child’s Self in Parkside
  10. Chapter Six: Queenston and Kelley Preschools
  11. Chapter Seven: Parkside Preschools
  12. Chapter Eight: Balancing Psychologized Individualism with Societal Constraints and Uncovering the True Self
  13. Conclusion: The Varieties of Individualism
  14. Appendix A: Sample Letter for Parents
  15. Appendix B: Interview Questions
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index