Ruth H Munroe
Biographic Data
| ID | 94356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth H Munroe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth H |
| FAMILY NAME | Munroe |
| SIGNATURE | MUNROE R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pitzer College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Infant Experience and Late-Childhood Dispositions: An Eleven-Year Follow-Up among the Logoli of Kenya
A small sample of children in western Kenya, studied first in infancy and again at age five, was tested in order to ascertain whether mother-holding in infancy continued to predict affective and cognitive outcomes at age 12, as had been the case at age five. Results indicated that (1) positive affective outcomes at age 12 were associated with frequency of mother-holding, but with no other measure of care in infancy; (2) cognitive performance at a…
Cross-Cultural Correlates of the Consonant-Vowel (CV) Syllable
Universality of the simple consonant-vowel (CV) syllable probably reflects its status as a prototype syllable facilitative of oral communication. Although CV is ubiquitous, it makes up only a minority of the syllabic corpus of some languages, whereas it is dominant in others. In an attempt to account for the differential frequency of CV across languages, a cross-cultural study was conducted (N = 53) to test the general hypothesis that CV would oc…
The Samoa Reader: Anthropologists Take Stock. Hiram Caton, ed
Comparative Field Studies: Methodological Issues and Future Possibilities
The review of field studies in Part One raised a number of methodological ques-tions, some of which were taken up at the end of that article. We have reserved for this paper a discussion of more general issues of design, measurement, analysis, and interpretation. At the conclusion of the paper, with the aid of a specific research example, we shall attempt to illustrate an application of many of these methodologi-cal points. Design Questions addre…
Results of Comparative Field Studies
A Response to Broude on the Couvade
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Children and Anthropological Research. Barbara Butler and Diane Michalski Turner
Gender understanding and sex role preference in four cultures
Infant Experience and Childhood Cognition: A Longitudinal Study Among the Logoli of Kenya
Children's Work in Four Cultures: Determinants and Consequences
Time Allocation in Four Societies
Certain classes of activity are regularly undertaken in all sociocultural systems. Work, preparation of meals, eating, care of children, hygienic activity, and periods of idleness are elements in the daily routine of human beings everywhere. Where there is cross-cultural uniformity in the time devoted to these activities, we can look to the possible operation of universal biopsychological attributes and broadly similar social prerequisites and en…
Birth Order and Intellectual Performance in East Africa
The generalizability of birth order effects found by Zajonc and Markus was investigated for a sample of 1400 high school students in rural, sub-Saharan Africa. For three intellectual test scores, performance declined as a function of birth order. Variations from monotonicity included a reversal of the performance of ranks I and 2, markedly superior performance of birth ranks 1-3 over lower ranks, and very poor scores for those at ranks 7 and lowe…
Linguistics: Research in Culture Learning: Language and Conceptual Studies . Michael P. Hamnett and Richard W. Brislin
Infant Experience and Childhood Affect Among the Logoli: A Longitudinal Study
Films: Maragoli. 1976. Produced and directed by Sandra Nichols
Land, labor, and the child's cognitive performance among the Logoli
Ecological variables begin a chain of relationships that carries into subsistence and socialization and ends with effects on cognition: plot size is positively correlated with the time adult females spend in subsistence task performance; women who most frequently work choose harsh punishment for children on depicted hypothetical sequences involving misbehavior; and children of compliance-stressing mothers perform less well on a cognitive task tha…
Beyond cultural relativism
Ronald P. Rohner. They Love Me, They Love Me Not: A Worldwide Study of the Effects of Parental Acceptance and Rejection. New Haven, Conn.: H.R.A.F. Press, 1975. 300 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, and index. $12.00 (cloth), $6.00 (paper)
Sociobiology: Another view
Pastoralism and Personality: An Andean Replication
Levels of Obedience among U.S. and East African Children on an Experimental Task
Eighteen peri-urban East African (Kikuyu) and twenty suburban middle-class U.S. children aged five to nine were tested for obedience. Within each sample, every child was directed to carry out both a prescriptive and a proscriptive task by his own mother and by another sample child's mother. No differences were found for the proscriptive task (not touching toys), and all but two children in each sample were fully obedient. However, on the prescrip…
Obedience Among Children in an East African Society
Among the world's culture areas, African societies are rated the highest in socialization for compliance. The Kikuyu, a group with typically high compliance training, were tested experimentally for obedience. Eighteen children between five and nine years of age were given two tasks by their own mothers and the same two tasks by another child's mother. Overall obedience was very high, with ten children obeying fully on all tasks. The strongest con…
A Cross-Cultural Study of Sex Gender and Social Structure
Effects of Population Density on Food Concerns in Three East African Societies
Robert L. Munroe, Ruth H. Munroe, Sara B. Nerlove, Robert E. Daniels, Effects of Population Density on Food Concerns in Three East African Societies, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Sep., 1969), pp. 161-171
A note on the use of tests as learning devices
Adult Reading
Children's Work in Four Cultures: Determinants and Consequences
Gender understanding and sex role preference in four cultures
Time Allocation in Four Societies
Certain classes of activity are regularly undertaken in all sociocultural systems. Work, preparation of meals, eating, care of children, hygienic activity, and periods of idleness are elements in the daily routine of human beings everywhere. Where there is cross-cultural uniformity in the time devoted to these activities, we can look to the possible operation of universal biopsychological attributes and broadly similar social prerequisites and en…
Infant Experience and Childhood Affect Among the Logoli: A Longitudinal Study
Pastoralism and Personality: An Andean Replication
Cross-Cultural Correlates of the Consonant-Vowel (CV) Syllable
Universality of the simple consonant-vowel (CV) syllable probably reflects its status as a prototype syllable facilitative of oral communication. Although CV is ubiquitous, it makes up only a minority of the syllabic corpus of some languages, whereas it is dominant in others. In an attempt to account for the differential frequency of CV across languages, a cross-cultural study was conducted (N = 53) to test the general hypothesis that CV would oc…
Infant Experience and Childhood Cognition: A Longitudinal Study Among the Logoli of Kenya
Land, labor, and the child's cognitive performance among the Logoli
Ecological variables begin a chain of relationships that carries into subsistence and socialization and ends with effects on cognition: plot size is positively correlated with the time adult females spend in subsistence task performance; women who most frequently work choose harsh punishment for children on depicted hypothetical sequences involving misbehavior; and children of compliance-stressing mothers perform less well on a cognitive task tha…
Results of Comparative Field Studies
Obedience Among Children in an East African Society
Among the world's culture areas, African societies are rated the highest in socialization for compliance. The Kikuyu, a group with typically high compliance training, were tested experimentally for obedience. Eighteen children between five and nine years of age were given two tasks by their own mothers and the same two tasks by another child's mother. Overall obedience was very high, with ten children obeying fully on all tasks. The strongest con…
Infant Experience and Late-Childhood Dispositions: An Eleven-Year Follow-Up among the Logoli of Kenya
A small sample of children in western Kenya, studied first in infancy and again at age five, was tested in order to ascertain whether mother-holding in infancy continued to predict affective and cognitive outcomes at age 12, as had been the case at age five. Results indicated that (1) positive affective outcomes at age 12 were associated with frequency of mother-holding, but with no other measure of care in infancy; (2) cognitive performance at a…
Birth Order and Intellectual Performance in East Africa
The generalizability of birth order effects found by Zajonc and Markus was investigated for a sample of 1400 high school students in rural, sub-Saharan Africa. For three intellectual test scores, performance declined as a function of birth order. Variations from monotonicity included a reversal of the performance of ranks I and 2, markedly superior performance of birth ranks 1-3 over lower ranks, and very poor scores for those at ranks 7 and lowe…
Levels of Obedience among U.S. and East African Children on an Experimental Task
Eighteen peri-urban East African (Kikuyu) and twenty suburban middle-class U.S. children aged five to nine were tested for obedience. Within each sample, every child was directed to carry out both a prescriptive and a proscriptive task by his own mother and by another sample child's mother. No differences were found for the proscriptive task (not touching toys), and all but two children in each sample were fully obedient. However, on the prescrip…
A Cross-Cultural Study of Sex Gender and Social Structure
Effects of Population Density on Food Concerns in Three East African Societies
Robert L. Munroe, Ruth H. Munroe, Sara B. Nerlove, Robert E. Daniels, Effects of Population Density on Food Concerns in Three East African Societies, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Sep., 1969), pp. 161-171
Comparative Field Studies: Methodological Issues and Future Possibilities
The review of field studies in Part One raised a number of methodological ques-tions, some of which were taken up at the end of that article. We have reserved for this paper a discussion of more general issues of design, measurement, analysis, and interpretation. At the conclusion of the paper, with the aid of a specific research example, we shall attempt to illustrate an application of many of these methodologi-cal points. Design Questions addre…
A Response to Broude on the Couvade
Adult Reading
A note on the use of tests as learning devices
A Cross-Cultural Study of Sex Gender and Social Structure
Effects of Population Density on Food Concerns in Three East African Societies
Robert L. Munroe, Ruth H. Munroe, Sara B. Nerlove, Robert E. Daniels, Effects of Population Density on Food Concerns in Three East African Societies, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Sep., 1969), pp. 161-171
Obedience Among Children in an East African Society
Among the world's culture areas, African societies are rated the highest in socialization for compliance. The Kikuyu, a group with typically high compliance training, were tested experimentally for obedience. Eighteen children between five and nine years of age were given two tasks by their own mothers and the same two tasks by another child's mother. Overall obedience was very high, with ten children obeying fully on all tasks. The strongest con…
Levels of Obedience among U.S. and East African Children on an Experimental Task
Eighteen peri-urban East African (Kikuyu) and twenty suburban middle-class U.S. children aged five to nine were tested for obedience. Within each sample, every child was directed to carry out both a prescriptive and a proscriptive task by his own mother and by another sample child's mother. No differences were found for the proscriptive task (not touching toys), and all but two children in each sample were fully obedient. However, on the prescrip…
Beyond cultural relativism
Ronald P. Rohner. They Love Me, They Love Me Not: A Worldwide Study of the Effects of Parental Acceptance and Rejection. New Haven, Conn.: H.R.A.F. Press, 1975. 300 pp. Figures, tables, appendices, bibliography, and index. $12.00 (cloth), $6.00 (paper)
Sociobiology: Another view
Pastoralism and Personality: An Andean Replication
Land, labor, and the child's cognitive performance among the Logoli
Ecological variables begin a chain of relationships that carries into subsistence and socialization and ends with effects on cognition: plot size is positively correlated with the time adult females spend in subsistence task performance; women who most frequently work choose harsh punishment for children on depicted hypothetical sequences involving misbehavior; and children of compliance-stressing mothers perform less well on a cognitive task tha…
Films: Maragoli. 1976. Produced and directed by Sandra Nichols
Infant Experience and Childhood Affect Among the Logoli: A Longitudinal Study
Linguistics: Research in Culture Learning: Language and Conceptual Studies . Michael P. Hamnett and Richard W. Brislin
Time Allocation in Four Societies
Certain classes of activity are regularly undertaken in all sociocultural systems. Work, preparation of meals, eating, care of children, hygienic activity, and periods of idleness are elements in the daily routine of human beings everywhere. Where there is cross-cultural uniformity in the time devoted to these activities, we can look to the possible operation of universal biopsychological attributes and broadly similar social prerequisites and en…
Birth Order and Intellectual Performance in East Africa
The generalizability of birth order effects found by Zajonc and Markus was investigated for a sample of 1400 high school students in rural, sub-Saharan Africa. For three intellectual test scores, performance declined as a function of birth order. Variations from monotonicity included a reversal of the performance of ranks I and 2, markedly superior performance of birth ranks 1-3 over lower ranks, and very poor scores for those at ranks 7 and lowe…
Gender understanding and sex role preference in four cultures
Infant Experience and Childhood Cognition: A Longitudinal Study Among the Logoli of Kenya
Children's Work in Four Cultures: Determinants and Consequences
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Children and Anthropological Research. Barbara Butler and Diane Michalski Turner
A Response to Broude on the Couvade
Comparative Field Studies: Methodological Issues and Future Possibilities
The review of field studies in Part One raised a number of methodological ques-tions, some of which were taken up at the end of that article. We have reserved for this paper a discussion of more general issues of design, measurement, analysis, and interpretation. At the conclusion of the paper, with the aid of a specific research example, we shall attempt to illustrate an application of many of these methodologi-cal points. Design Questions addre…
Results of Comparative Field Studies
The Samoa Reader: Anthropologists Take Stock. Hiram Caton, ed
Cross-Cultural Correlates of the Consonant-Vowel (CV) Syllable
Universality of the simple consonant-vowel (CV) syllable probably reflects its status as a prototype syllable facilitative of oral communication. Although CV is ubiquitous, it makes up only a minority of the syllabic corpus of some languages, whereas it is dominant in others. In an attempt to account for the differential frequency of CV across languages, a cross-cultural study was conducted (N = 53) to test the general hypothesis that CV would oc…
Infant Experience and Late-Childhood Dispositions: An Eleven-Year Follow-Up among the Logoli of Kenya
A small sample of children in western Kenya, studied first in infancy and again at age five, was tested in order to ascertain whether mother-holding in infancy continued to predict affective and cognitive outcomes at age 12, as had been the case at age five. Results indicated that (1) positive affective outcomes at age 12 were associated with frequency of mother-holding, but with no other measure of care in infancy; (2) cognitive performance at a…
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