The Making of the Modern Subject: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Autor/in	Zhao, Guoping
Titel	The Making of the Modern Subject: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
Quelle	In: Educational Theory, 57 (2007) 1, S.75-88 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-2004
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-5446.2006.00245.x
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Ideology; Child Development; Cultural Influences; Self Concept; Confucianism; Personal Autonomy; Individualism; Cultural Context; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ideologie; Kindesentwicklung; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Selbstkonzept; Konfuzianismus; Individuelle Autonomie; Individualismus; USA
Abstract	The postmodern critique of modernity has focused on the construction of the modern subject and the self-disciplining and self-cancellation tendencies within it. This critique, however, fails to consider what happens during the early years of children's development--the period during which the modern subject is made, and the one in which the paradoxes and ambiguities inherent in modern subjectivity are established. In this essay Guoping Zhao analyzes how children's developmental process affects the definition and formation of the self in the United States. She uses a cross-cultural lens, comparing the dominant cultural ideas and practices associated with child development in the United States (stemming from the ideology of liberal individualism) with those influenced and supported by Confucianism. Zhao argues that children's paths of development are not natural but cultural ones guided by underlying ideologies, and ultimately concludes that this cultural process determines the shapes and forms of the modern subject and the nature of individual freedom and autonomy. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10