We invite submissions for our panel at the First Biennial Conference of the European Network for Psychological Anthropology<http://enpanthro.net/enpa-conference/>, 2-4 June 2020, in Helsinki - Finland.
CFP ENPA 2020 panel: Development of children's understanding of social roles and norms in comparative perspective
Roles and norms are key to human sociality, yet human societies vary according to their relative standardisation, formalisation and explicitness. In this panel we combine anthropological and psychological approaches to the development of children's understanding of roles and norms, in relation to evolved capacities and culturally specific social orientations.
The distinguishing feature of human sociality is not the ability to create relations - a trait shared with nonhuman primates - but the ability to assign special status to social roles such as "spouse" and "teacher", which create certain entitlements and obligations (Searle 1995). Theories of cooperation posit that this ability evolved in contexts of interdependence and mutualistic collaboration. Children enforce norms in their direct interactions from early childhood, and importantly, by the age of 3, also as third-party observers, which has been taken as an indication of the development of agent-neutral morality (Tomasello and Vaish 2013). Developmental theories, however, say little about the extent to which agent-neutral moralities become the object of reflection and/or formalisation. Focusing on adults, anthropologists commonly argue that patterns of social interaction, group size, demographics and different moral outlooks influence the relative standardisation of roles and norms in a given community (Bird-David 1995). Anthropological work on child development has explored how these elements of the social world correlate with explicit rules (e.g. turn-taking) on the one hand, and subtle alignment of interests, on the other, as a basis of joint action (Lancy et al 2012, Rogoff 2003)
We invite papers that explore the development of children's understanding of social roles and norms, by looking at how norms emerge, are enforced and monitored in avoidance, distribution and cooperative activities in peer groups and among adults, as well as through comparisons between contexts of more and less formalised roles/norms usage.
Panel organizers:
Natalia Buitron (London School of Economics)
Anni Kajanus (University of Helsinki)
Please send you abstract (max 250 words) to the panel organisers by 26th November:
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Dr Natalia Buitron
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Department of Anthropology, LSE
WC2A 2AE, London
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