How do cultural differences in parenting and socialization before the age 15 impact an adult’s social skills?
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Psychology, Culture, Child Psychology, social skills, parentingAbstract
Cultural values differ vastly across the world, leading to differences in parenting practices due to different preferred outcomes in children’s social skills. Children are raised differently across the globe to adhere to contrasting expectations and develop social skills that allow them to fit into their society. This paper examines the role of culture differences in parenting towards children before the age of 10, and how it has an impact on the development of social skills. Through incorporating evidence from other relevant research papers and articles, I demonstrate how and why cultures and societies lead to different behaviours and skills being developed. In particular, I explore two types of societies with distinct cultural norms – individualist and collectivist – to argue that social skills differ between countries and cultures depending on the norms of that culture.
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