Tuesday 27 January 2009

non-industrial societies and industrial societies

Explain how children in simpler, non-industrial societies are generally treated differently from their modern western counterparts. Refer in your answer to the work of Ruth Benedict (1934). (Sairan, Elivira, Maria, Wendy, Daisy, Mary, Rebecca)

----Ruth Benedict (born Ruth Fulton, June 5, 1887–September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist.One of her famous contribution is about the pattern of culture.We can see some introdutions and researchs about different culture between non-industrial societies and industrial societies.
Why do only some children of the same family attain a level of education considered to be socially desirable whereas their siblings do not? The essence of an answer lies in the fact that the same parents could play rather dissimilar roles in the education of their different children. Using part of qualitative data collected in Hong Kong between 1996 and 1997, this paper focuses on what selective parents did for their children's education. The data illustrated that in deciding what they would and could do for each of their children's education, parents responded to their children's academic ability, resource availability, and ideology. The educational attainments of children of the same family could be very diverse not merely because of children's different academic performances but because of the deliberate decisions of their parents in formulating strategies for basic survival or for advancement.
And the differences beween these parents are dueing to the culture and characters of non-industrial societies and industrial societies.Industrial societies are reliable on the technology,money capitals which forces the people to study,work hard in order to gain high certificates and working status.On the other hand,in non-industrial societies,people concentrate more on the labour which makes it can not catch up with the industrial societies.
Finally,the kind of ideology is exerted on the children.

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