Dissertation Research: Children's Construction of Ethnic Categories in Brazil

0108922 Hirschfeld/Baran这篇论文是由密歇根大学人类学专业的一名学生完成的，研究巴西巴伊亚州贝尔蒙特的儿童和青少年如何学习种族知识。该项目促进了我们对儿童发展与社会范畴形成中的文化环境之间的相互作用的理解。这项研究将综合两个方面的工作：认知心理学对儿童发展的研究，以及人类学对种族分类和不平等的社会和历史构建的研究。研究设计包括在学校、校外社会和家庭环境中进行参与者观察；对重点关注的儿童和青少年的家庭成员进行半结构化访谈；以及在两种不同条件下进行种族普查，以了解基于表现型的生物学分类系统和基于年龄的社会认同之间的关系。收集到的信息将形成人类学关于童年和社会分类的理论，以及关于认知发展普遍性的心理学概念。此外，这项研究还促进了我们对巴西种族关系的理解，并有助于培养一位年轻的社会科学家。

0108922Hirschfeld / BaranThis dissertation research project by an anthropology student from the University of Michigan studies how children and adolescents learn about race in Belmonte, Bahia, Brazil. The project advances our understanding of the interactions between child development and the cultural environment in social category formation. The research will synthesize two lines of work: cognitive psychology's studies of child development and anthropology's work on the social and historical construction of racial classification and inequality. The research design includes participant observation in schools, extra-school social and family settings; semi-structured interviews with a sample of family members of focal children and adolescents; and a racial census with two different conditions to understand the relation between biological systems of categorization and social identification based on phenotype as a function of age. The information collected will shape anthropological theories of childhood and social categorization, and psychological notions of the universality of cognitive development. In addition the research advances our understanding of race relations in Brazil and contributes to the training of a young social scientist.