Across time and beyond skin: Self and transgression in the everyday socialization of shame among Taiwanese preschool children

Social Development

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 419-437

  Fung, Heidi ^a,b   Chen, Eva Chian Hui ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ETHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b Harvard Yenching Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Discursive practices; Moral socialization; Self and culture; Shame

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035648587     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00173     Document Type: Article

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