SRP Year
1989-1990
Principal Investigator(s)
Study Description
This SRP was part of a broader study of a broader project on childcare policy and children’s peer interaction and culture in the United States and Italy. This part of the study, focused on the United States, had two components: (1) a telephone interview of a random sample of mothers, assessing childcare and education needs and facilities in the Bloomington-Indianapolis area; and (2) ethnographic observation in two preschools in the area.
The first phase of this project (August 1988 through June 1989) documented the history of childcare policy in Italy, analyzed interview data from a sample of Italian mothers regarding their perceptions of the policies and quality of life of their children, and explored how the policies affected the daily lives of a sample of Italian children. The second phase involved a parallel investigation in the Bloomington-Indianapolis area to document how childcare policy and early education experience affect children’s peer interaction and culture.
Research Team
Cher Jamison
This study was conducted with support from the staff at the Center for Survey Research at Indiana University and used the Center's centralized telephone interviewing facility located on the Bloomington campus.
Sources of Support
This study is supported by funding from the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University-Bloomington, the Spencer Foundation, and the William T. Grant Foundation.
Related Studies
Related Scholarly Output
Publications
- Corsaro, William A. 1990. “The Underlife of the Nursery School: Young Children’s Social Representations of Adult Rules.” Pp. 11–26 in Social Representations and the Development of Knowledge, edited by G. Duveen and B. Lloyd. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
- Corsaro, William A. 1992b. “Interpretive Reproduction in Children’s Peer Cultures.” Social Psychology Quarterly 55(2):160–77.
- Corsaro, William A. 1993. “Interpretive Reproduction in Children’s Role Play.” Childhood 1(2):64–74.
- Corsaro, William A. 1994. “Discussion, Debate, and Friendship Processes: Peer Discourse in U.S. and Italian Nursery Schools.” Sociology of Education 67(1):1–26.
- Corsaro, William A. 1996a. “Early Education, Children’s Lives, and the Transition from Home to School in Italy and the United States.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 37(1):121–139.
- Corsaro, William A. 1996b. “Transitions in Early Childhood: The Promise of Comparative, Longitudinal Ethnography.” Pp. 419–457 in Ethnography and human development: Context and meaning in social inquiry, edited by R. Jessor, A. Colby, and R. A. Shweder.
- Corsaro, William A. 1997. The Sociology of Childhood. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press.
- Corsaro, William A., and Donna Eder. 1990. “Children’s Peer Cultures.” Annual Review of Sociology 16(1):197–220.
- Corsaro, William A., and David R. Heise. 1990. “Event Structure Models from Ethnographic Data.” Sociological Methodology 20:1–57.
- Corsaro, William A., and Peggy J. Miller, eds. 1992. Interpretive Approaches to Children’s Socialization. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
- Corsaro, William A., and Luisa Molinari. 1990. “From Seggiolini to Discussione: The Generation and Extension of Peer Culture among Italian Preschool Children.” International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 3(3):213–30.
- Corsaro, William A., and Thomas A. Rizzo. 1990. “Disputes in the Peer Culture of American and Italian Nursery-School Children.” Pp. 21–66 in Conflict Talk: Sociolinguistic investigations of arguments in conversations. Vol. 21, edited by A. D. Grimshaw. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
- Evaldsson, Ann-Carita, and William A. Corsaro. 1998. “Play and Games in the Peer Cultures of Preschool and Preadolescent Children: An Interpretative Approach.” Childhood 5(4):377–402.
- Rizzo, Thomas A., and William A. Corsaro. 1995. “Social Support Processes in Early Childhood Friendship: A Comparative Study of Ecological Congruences in Enacted Support.” American Journal of Community Psychology; New York 23(3):389–417.
- Rizzo, Thomas A., William A. Corsaro, and John E. Bates. 1992. “Ethnographic Methods and Interpretive Analysis: Expanding the Methodological Options of Psychologists.” Developmental Review 12(2):101–23.
- Rosier, Katherine Brown, and William A. Corsaro. 1993. “Competent Parents, Complex Lives: Managing Parenthood in Poverty.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 22(2):171–204.