Accomplishing irony

Socializing foster children into peer culture

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12570502
AutoresCarolus H C J van Nijnatten (Faculty of Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Utrecht University Heidelberglaan 1, H230A Utrecht 3508 TC The Netherlands), Maureen T Matarese (Department of Academic Literacy and Linguistics, BMCC City University of New York New York USA), Martine Noordegraaf (0000-0001-6613-7737, Christelijke Hogeschool Ede Oude Kerkweg 100 Ede 6717 JS The Netherlands)
Ano2017
Volume22
Fascículo4
Páginas1497-1505
Data de publicação2017-05-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoChild & Family Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1356-7500 • E-ISSN: 1365-2206
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/cfs.12372
OpenAlexW2612703896
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas35

Parents indirectly influence their children's peer interactions by implicit socialization and directly by interference. They influence their (young) children's doings by supervising their contacts with friends, monitoring where they go, and facilitating their meetings with friends at home. Adolescents' growing orientation to peers is often at the cost of direct contact with their parents. Potentially, conversations with adolescent children become significant moments for parents to collect information about their children's social lives, preparing them for the challenges of their preadult social life. We studied conversations between in state‐created family homes amongst foster parents (FPs) and out‐of‐home‐placed adolescents, to see how FPs prepare foster adolescents to deal with the dynamics of peer culture, specifically in mocking practices. We are interested in the pedagogical role of FPs in these practices. We find that peer culture behavior is expressed in the context of family homes. Rather than preparing adolescents for peer culture indirectly by discussing possible, or hypothetical, situations, FPs react directly to peer culture expressions at the dinner table. In their approach, FPs demonstrate that peer culture membership is not just an interactional competence but also a teachable issue

Developmental psychology · Peer group · Socialization · Teachable moment · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Psychology