Psycho‐Social Roles of Mennonite Children in a Changing Society

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ID12926016
AuthorsMinako Kurokawa (York University, corresponding author)
Year1969
Volume6
Issue1
Pages15-35
Publication date1969-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1755-6171 • E-ISSN: 1755-618X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1755-618x.1969.tb02289.x
OpenAlexW2009387303
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

Les enfants mennonites, évés dans un monde isolé qui est en voie de transformations constantes pour relever les defis de la societe globale, doivent assumer des roles qui sont psychologiquement et sociologiquement complexes. Des observations effectuees sur des enfants appartenant a trois groupes mennonites differents ‐ traditionnel, transitoire, progressif ‐ indiquent clairement que l'mfluence sur les enfants varie en fonction de la grandeur des differences qui existent entre chaque groupe mennonite et la societe plus large. L'impact d'un conflit culturel est le plus nettement visible dans le groupe en transition. Les parents dans ce groupe etaient plus susceptibles d'utiliser des me‐thodes autoritaires vis‐a‐vis leurs enfants et de manquer de continuite dans 1'exer‐cice de la discipline. En retour, leurs enfants avaient tendance a manifester une inconsistance dans les valeurs, un sentiment d'insuffisance, et des symptomes implicites de mesadaptation. Mennonite children, reared in an isolated world which constantly changes to meet challenges from the outside society, must assume roles which are extremely complex psychologically and sociologically. Observations of children belonging to three different Mennonite groups ‐ traditional, transitional, and progressive ‐ show that the consequences for children varied according to the breadth of difference existing between each Mennonite group and the outside society. The effect of cultural conflict was most clearly seen in the transitional group. Parents of this group were likely to be authoritarian to their children and inconsistent in disciplining. Their children, in turn, tended to show value inconsistency, a sense of inadequacy, and covert symptoms of maladjustment

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