Who Sleeps by Whom? Parent-Child Involvement in Urban Japanese Families †.
Who Sleeps by Whom? Parent-Child Involvement in Urban Japanese Families †.
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日本城市家庭中谁和谁一起睡觉?
DOI:
10.1080/00332747.1966.11023478
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发表时间:
1966
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影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
D. Plath
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文献类型:
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作者:
W. Caudill;D. Plath
IF A THIRD OF LIFE is passed in bed, with whom this time is spent is not a trivial matter. As ethnologists, we expect co-sleeping customs to be consonant with major interpersonal and emotional patterns of family life in a culture, and at the same time to reflect cross-cultural differences. 1 Westerners viewing Japanese sleeping arrangements usually sense a high degree of" overcrowding," which they say results from lack of space in" densely populated" Japan. We argue that this apparent" overcrowding" in the bedroom is only in part a function of lack of space: It derives more directly from the strength of family bonds. We argue further that the frequency with which children co-sleep with parents expresses a strong cultural emphasis upon the nurturant aspects of family life and a correlative de-emphasis of its sexual aspects. We support our arguments by asking, of data from urban families, who sleeps by whom?