This exploratory report investigates how children, aged 6- to 12-years, reason about divisions in labour. It focuses on understanding when in development children might associate higher status groups with intellectual as opposed to physical labour. It explores this question by introducing a sample of mostly mid/high-SES American children to a novel factory setting and then asking them who is likely to have one of two jobs: a ‘builder’ (physical labour), or ‘thinker’ (intellectual labour) job. Older children were more likely than younger children to associate an individual's higher social status with intellectual labour work as opposed to physical labour work. Children also explained their reasoning, and with age their explanations focused more on social factors like the role of access to ‘choices’ or opportunities in shaping the nature of others' work.

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谁是思想家？随着年龄的增长，社会经济地位较高的美国儿童越来越多地将社会地位与劳动分工联系起来

这份探索性报告调查了 6 至 12 岁的儿童如何推理分工。它侧重于了解在发育过程中，儿童何时可能将地位较高的群体与智力劳动而不是体力劳动联系起来。它通过将主要是中/高社会经济地位的美国儿童样本引入一个新的工厂环境，然后询问他们谁可能从事以下两种工作之一来探索这个问题：“建设者”（体力劳动）或“思想家”（脑力劳动）工作。年龄较大的儿童比年龄较小的儿童更有可能将个人较高的社会地位与脑力劳动联系起来，而不是体力劳动。孩子们也解释了他们的理由，