1. The Importance of Early Childh
... in society. What it means to be a functioning member of society differs from culture to culture (Erikson, 1968). All cultures have their own types of neurosis, their own ideas on adult normality, and their own varieties of childhood (Erikson, 1963). Neurosis do not exist, only perceptions of ... "little animals". It is now understood that native child-rearing systems do exist and that natives do not deviate from the progressive norms of raising children (Erikson, 1963). It is important to take cultural differences into account in any theory of childhood development because differences ....
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