Conflict
How is this issue socially meaningful and what role does culture play?
Sociological Imagination:
How is this both personal and public in nature?
Interactionist
how does this issue influence individual or small group behavior?
- Studies from the University of California say it can effect individual and small group behavior negatively. Individually because these children are shown to be less creative and resourceful so they grow to be less competent adults. In small groups because these children lack social skills and are less likely to contribute to leadership positions because they have been trained not to be a leader but instead to do as they are told.
- http://persweb.wabash.edu/facstaff/hortonr/articles%20for%20class/baumrind.pdf
- Journal of Education and Human Development says, there are pros and cons to authoritarian parenting. A child raised in this atmosphere may be more likely to excel in the academic and professional field but also more likely to have low self-esteem, poor social skills, and be a less resourceful person.
- http://www.scientificjournals.org/journals2007/articles/1031.htm
- With children growing into adults who are lacking social skills and are having trouble trusting people above them who are not their parents, we are seeing that these adults are more likely to have conflicts with these people of higher power such as bosses/managers in the work field. so ultimately after striving for success and being put on a pedestal for it they are the ones who are more like to struggle in the future.
- http://www.scientificjournals.org/journals2007/articles/1031.htm
- Studies done at the University of New Hampshire say authoritarian parenting styles don't only influence the child's behavior in the home, which is some of the reason for this choice. But also the way these children interact outside the home. Authoritarian parenting styles are more likely to create children who are obedient when at home but disrespectful, delinquent children when they are elsewhere. Seeing people older or of higher power is illegitimate.
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120210105901.htm
Are authoritarian parenting styles beneficial to children?
Research: Qualitative data
Functionalist
What function does this have in society?
- The use of harsh punishment has been linked to a wide variety of negative mental health outcomes, including internalizing characteristics such as lower self-esteem (Gershoff, 2002). A study done by Bender, Allen,McElhaney, Antonishak, Moore, Kelly, & Davis, 2007, correlated the use of harsh discipline with the ability of young adults to establish autonomy while maintaining a healthy relationship with their parents as well as other adults they associate with. They found that the use of harsh discipline by parents resulted in greater adolescent depression. They also found that the use of harsh discipline by specifically mother resulted in adolescents who were less engaged and warm toward other adults. This negative effect on the parent-adolescent relationship is found to result in adolescents reporting significantly lower levels of self-esteem.
- http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&context=mcnair_journal
- According to Timothy L. Snyder fuctionalists believe that authoritarian parenting is beneficial to children and society because studies have shown that they achieve more academically so they are likely to achieve more in the work field. therefore, contributing more to society.
- http://www.lander.edu/Academics/Academic-Affairs-Office/Faculty/faculty-member.aspx?emailid=tsnyder
Mainstream Media
Normative and Deviant
- In the media, there is a discrepancy between American perceptions of Chinese parenting and the reality of Chinese parenting. The “tiger mom” is the prevailing stereotype of Chinese parenting in America (Chua, 2011). Americans perceive tiger moms to be highly controlling, strict, and severe almost to the point of abuse, because it is fact that Chinese children are more academically advanced than American children, Americans are now trying to follow these Authoritarian ways because there is so much pressure in society now to succeed academically and professionally.
- http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/opus/issues/2013/spring/wang
- Research supported by a grant to Laurence Steinberg and B. Bradford Brown from the U.S. Department of Education say it is normative because it is believed that these people who grew up to achieve academic and work place success are stereotypically the most successful at life. However, deviant because children of authoritarian parenting are worked up to the image of being obedient leads to success but then grow to be individuals who have trouble taking orders once they are out on their own and are in a situation of having to take orders from someone above them who is not their parent. And struggle being an independent adult because they have had someone telling them what to do all their life.
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1991.tb01588.x/abstract#