Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Editors’ Introduction Contemporary Socio-Cultural Research
- Part I Theoretical and methodological issues
- Part II From nature to culture
- Part III From orientation to meaning
- Part IV Symbolic resources for the constitution of experience
- Part V From society to the person through culture
- Chapter 20 Apprenticeship in Conversation and Culture
- Chapter 21 The Creation of New Cultures in Peer Interaction
- Chapter 22 “Culture Has No Internal Territory”
- Chapter 23 Cultural-Historical Approaches to Designing for Development
- Chapter 24 Money as a Cultural Tool Mediating Personal Relationships
- Chapter 25 The Family
- Part VI From social culture to personal culture
- Part VII Making sense of the past for the future: memory and self-reflection
- General Conclusions: Socio-Cultural Psychology on the Move
- Index
Chapter 21 - The Creation of New Cultures in Peer Interaction
from Part V - From society to the person through culture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Contributors
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
- Editors’ Introduction Contemporary Socio-Cultural Research
- Part I Theoretical and methodological issues
- Part II From nature to culture
- Part III From orientation to meaning
- Part IV Symbolic resources for the constitution of experience
- Part V From society to the person through culture
- Chapter 20 Apprenticeship in Conversation and Culture
- Chapter 21 The Creation of New Cultures in Peer Interaction
- Chapter 22 “Culture Has No Internal Territory”
- Chapter 23 Cultural-Historical Approaches to Designing for Development
- Chapter 24 Money as a Cultural Tool Mediating Personal Relationships
- Chapter 25 The Family
- Part VI From social culture to personal culture
- Part VII Making sense of the past for the future: memory and self-reflection
- General Conclusions: Socio-Cultural Psychology on the Move
- Index
Summary
This chapter defines peer culture as a stable set of activities or routines, artifacts, values, and concerns that children produce and share in interaction with peers. It discusses on sociocultural theory that can benefit from theory and research in childhood studies and the notion of interpretive reproduction. To demonstrate processes of children creating peer cultures and establishing group identities the chapter considers the involvement of children of various ages in three different types of shared peer activities: ritualized sharing, improvised fantasy play, and shared acts of resistance to adult authority. The chapter considers the nature and development of affiliation or friendship in these and other shared features of children's peer cultures. It describes the three of many features of children's creation of new cultures in peer interaction: toddlers' non-verbal and verbal play routines, children's improvised fantasy play, and children strategies and secondary adjustments to challenge and get around adult rules.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology , pp. 444 - 459Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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