PEER AND FRIEND RELATIONS IN CHILDREN’S EVERYDAY LIVES
Children spend a large part of their daily social interactions with peers and friends. Due to the institutionalization of the life course, children’s social activities are often age-based, and school tends to become especially important because of peers. Peer relations and friendships are embedded in socio-cultural contexts, and take different forms over time, which can either be maintained or abandoned over the years. In this seminar we will look at the importance of peers and friends in children’s everyday lives. We will discuss how children understand and do/undo friendships, differences between relationships with siblings and friends, pets and stuffed toys as 'friends' and the influence of gender, social class, ethnicity/migration, and health/disabilities on relationships with peers and friends. The seminar will also look at negative experiences in peer relations, such as peer conflict and bullying
- Enseignant·e: Anne Carolina Ramos