Case Studies: Punch, Holmes, Firth and Malinowski

Anthropologist Ruth Benedict (1934) argues that children in simpler, non-industrial societies are generally treated differently from their modern western counterparts in three ways:

Key Study 1: BOLIVIA

Samanta Punch (2001) found that around the age of 5, children are expected to work responsibilites in the home and community- taking on tasks without question

Key Study 2: SAMOA

Simularly Lowell Holmes' (1974) study discovered that…