What Are Cultural Models For? Child-Rearing Practices in Historical Perspective

Wierzbicka (2004) offers an engaging case concerning the Puritan roots of the English expressions good boy and good girl. While her invitation to see a cultural model of child rearing in an historical light must be applauded, her strategy for tracing its continuity and change is criticized in this c...

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Published inCulture & psychology Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 279 - 291
Main Author Campos, Gilberto Pérez
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.09.2004
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Behaviour
Candidates
Child rearing
Childrearing practices
Children
Criticism
Cultural psychology
Culture
English language
European history
Evaluative responding
Historical development
History
Metalinguistics
Parents
Praise
Psychological theories
Puritanism
history
child rearing
Natural Semantic Metalanguage
cultural models
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Summary:Wierzbicka (2004) offers an engaging case concerning the Puritan roots of the English expressions good boy and good girl. While her invitation to see a cultural model of child rearing in an historical light must be applauded, her strategy for tracing its continuity and change is criticized in this comment. The concept of cultural models appears as a good candidate in the effort to construct an historical perspective within cultural psychological theorizing, but the role of the NSM as a useful tool to that end seems unclear.
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ISSN:1354-067X
1461-7056
DOI:10.1177/1354067X04042889