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Children's socialization into cleaning practices: a cross-cultural perspective

Alessandra Fasulo

UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA ‘LA SAPIENZA’, ITALY

Heather Loyd

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, USA

Vincenzo Padiglione

UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA ‘LA SAPIENZA’, ITALY

Focusing on everyday hygiene and household cleaning tasks, this study examines the socialization practices and parenting strategies that foster familial and cultural values such as autonomy, interdependence and responsibility. Through the micro-analysis of videotaped family interaction in Los Angeles and Rome, this article looks at actual practices and activity trajectories to reveal the ways in which families organize themselves, attach values to different aspects of activities, and build diverse perspectives on authoritativeness. The comparative analysis points to differences across cultures, families and activities in the style and amount of parental control over cleaning tasks, and the number of options given to children in the process and sequence of tasks. Examinations of diverse parenting and conversational strategies reveal how particular practices may lead to the construction or limitation of children's agency.

Key Words: autonomy • children's agency • choice offers • cleaning • directives • family • interaction • interdependence • negotiation • parenting strategies • socialization

Discourse & Society, Vol. 18, No. 1, 11-33 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0957926507069454
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