Eleanor_Maccaoby

Eleanor Maccaoby Eleanor Maccoby is a renowned psychologist, with publications dating from 1957 to today. She specializes on the socialization of children, developmental change in personality and behavior, relationships of couples after divorce, and parent-child interactions. In this review I focus on her work examining the socialization of children, and parent-child interactions. I link her work between the socialization of children, from their interactions with their parents and with other children, to the interactions of adults. There is a clear parallel between the sex-typed skills learned in child-interactions and those conveyed in adult interactions. Parent–Child Interactions Maccoby looks at the development of gender through interaction: “social behavior is never a function of the individual alone. It is the function of the interaction between two or more persons” (Maccoby 1990). Maccoby’s earlier work dealt with parental effects on children’s gender identity, focusing on the sex stereotypes that parents instill in their children through interaction. Rothbart and Maccoby (1966) studied parents’ reactions to specific child behaviors, especially those regarded as sex-typed, like dependency and aggression, in hopes of understanding what accounts for sex differences in behavior. Social-learning theory addresses the finding, that girls display more dependent behaviors than maccoby, children, play, child, girls, sex, boys, jacklin, parents, interactions, behavior, same-sex, groups, fathers, toys, sex-typed, interaction, gender, 1990, authors, 1987, daughters, between, 1978, social, sexes, parent, two, found, child’s, children’s, 1966, sons, rothbart, partner