Beginning in the 1970s, research in childhood studies led to the reevaluation of children’s agency and their contributions to society. In my work on children’s interactions with peers and adults in schools and families, I challenged traditional views of socialization offering the alternative view of interpretive reproduction and associated concepts of peer culture and priming events. I review the development of these concepts and the importance of longitudinal comparative ethnography and audiovisual recording for capturing how research with children contributes both to rigorous reexamination of socialization theory and the field of social psychology more generally. In particular, I focus on the expansion of two theoretical concepts in my work related to the general notion of interpretive reproduction: (1) nonlinear and collective reproductive versus linear stage views of socialization and human development and (2) micro dramas in collective routines in peer culture. In the review of my methods and theory and in the expansion of my theoretical concepts, I continually raise issues regarding reexamination of Mead’s play and game stage and for the need to radically alter or even abandon the traditional concept of socialization.

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小人物的大创意：对儿童的研究对社会心理学有何贡献

从1970年代开始，对儿童研究的研究导致对儿童代理机构及其对社会的贡献的重新评估。在关于儿童与学校和家庭中同龄人和成年人的互动的工作中，我挑战了传统的社会化观点，提供了解释性复制以及同伴文化和启动事件相关概念的另一种观点。我回顾了这些概念的发展以及纵向比较人种志和音像记录对于捕捉儿童研究如何对严格重新审视社会化理论和更广泛的社会心理学领域的重要性。我特别关注与解释性复制的一般概念有关的两个理论概念的扩展：（1）社会化和人类发展的非线性和集体生殖与线性阶段观，以及（2）同伴文化中集体惯例中的微型戏剧。在回顾我的方法和理论以及扩展我的理论概念时，我不断提出有关重新审视米德的游戏和游戏阶段以及需要彻底改变甚至放弃传统社会化概念的问题。