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

0108922 Hirschfeld/Baran这篇论文研究项目由密歇根大学的一名人类学学生完成，研究了巴西巴伊亚的贝尔蒙特的儿童和青少年是如何了解种族的。 该项目推进了我们对儿童发展和社会类别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和人类学对种族分类和不平等的社会和历史结构的研究。研究设计包括在学校，校外社会和家庭环境的参与观察;半结构化的采访，重点儿童和青少年的家庭成员的样本;和种族人口普查，两种不同的条件，以了解生物系统的分类和社会认同的基础上，作为年龄的函数。 收集的信息将塑造人类学的童年和社会分类理论，以及认知发展的普遍性的心理学概念。此外，这项研究增进了我们对巴西种族关系的了解，有助于培养一名年轻的社会科学家。

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.