Attachment is known as the emotional bond between child and caretakers that allows a child to feel secure and to know that they can turn to someone in a threatening situation. During the first years of a child's life, they explore their environment, but they need to be able to trust their caretaker, so in case they need them, they are around for them.
2. Conceptualize patterns of social relationships throughout the lifespan as changing aspects of the ecological system in which development takes place.
Feeding practices and sleeping arrangements provide an important context for social interaction and bonding with caretakers in the first year of a child's life. As a child grows older, their peers begin to have a major influence in their lives. They have to deal with confusion, concerns, fears, and conflict. They have to go through dealing with resisting and challenging authority and rules that adults have made, and also they have to deal with sharing and social participation. Children learn to deal with everyday conflicts and fears by fantasy play. It helps them to deal with anxiety and violence. Children also learn to deal with rules and authority by games and play. They come to understand the concepts of creating and enforcing rules, like cheating. When children get older, they have to learn how to cooperate with each other and begin to learn teamwork.
3. Compare and contrast theories of social development (e.g. psychosocial development, moral development, and social identity development) and discuss their cultural implications.
When children begin to participate more socially as they grow older, they begin to understand how to relate others in socially desirable ways. They begin to understand concepts of what's "right" and "wrong". Moral development progresses in stages, and each stage represents more mature reasoning. Different socialization, parental beliefs, and customs of childcare.
Kohlberg's theory of moral development addresses important aspects of morality, especially the understanding of normative principles of justice. Carol Gilligan states that individuals may also base their moral decisions on nurturance and caring. Moral beliefs vary from culture to culture.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the underlying cultural factors that lead to different values applied to social behavior.
According to Arnett, cultures are characterized by broad socialization, and others by narrow socialization. Broad socialization is that independence and free self-expression are more highly valued than conformity, and narrow socialization means that it prescribes and ideology that strictly sets forth the basis for right and wrong behavior. Socialization of adolescents is largely influenced by other factors, not just their family and their peers. With all of these factors and influences, they lead to certain behaviors and values that they may have.
5. Comment of cultural influences of parent-child relationships.
Parent and child relationships are different in every culture. Not all cultures treat and raise their children in the same way. Whatever a culture believes is right on aspects of raising a child is exactly how the child will most likely raise their child. It's an important part of socialization. Relationships with parents and peers are important in a child's life and their growing up.