Cultural Factors That Affect Negro Child Development: A Psychological Approach to the Study of the Adjustment of Six Children Under the Supervision of the Bureau of Attendance, Brooklyn, New York, 1957-1958
Abstract
Background and Timeliness of the Study. Into our anxious age, as into all ages, the child is born. From early infancy’s consistent surroundings he grows and becomes acquainted with an ever-expanding community whose qualities are sometimes consistent and reassuring, but just as often inconsistent and confusing. There may be little consistency among the various behavior patterns advocated by his home, his school, his neighborhood, his community. Such sharp differences may exist among these patterns that as he attempts to conform to each of them, he may be injured as a person. It has proven unfruitful and misleading to try to explain human behavior and behavior norms of different social groups, by variants in their biological inheritance. There is, however, a cultural incentive for doing so.
Subject Area
Developmental psychology|Social structure|African Studies|Social work
Recommended Citation
Sobers, Cora Marguerite, "Cultural Factors That Affect Negro Child Development: A Psychological Approach to the Study of the Adjustment of Six Children Under the Supervision of the Bureau of Attendance, Brooklyn, New York, 1957-1958" (1958). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30557770.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30557770
