Italian children's understanding of war: A domain-specific approach

被引:4
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作者
Berti, AE [1 ]
Vanni, E [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Psicol Sviluppo & Socializzaz, I-35131 Padua, Italy
关键词
social cognition; concepts of war; understanding society; political concepts;
D O I
10.1111/1467-9507.00139
中图分类号
B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
学科分类号
040202 ;
摘要
Studies of children's conceptions of war; which have been carried out zig to now mainly by asking for a definition of war and associating it with other notions, have found few age-related changes after the age of 6. Considering the complexity of the concept and its embeddedness in the political conceptual domain, which emerges at around II years, we expect that greater differences should emerge if children's ideas on the causes and consequences of war; and the actors involved, are carefully assessed. Semistructured interviews carried out with a total of 80 Italian children from 2nd to 8th grades confirmed this hypothesis. Many 2nd graders described war as a clash between collectives without structure, attributing all decisions about starting, the development of and ending a war to the individual fighters and explaining these decisions (when they did) as due to emotions such as hatred, envy revenge, or being tired or unwilling to fight any longer Most dth and gth graders depicted war as a clash between nation-states, attributing decisions about its starting and ending to political authorities on the basis of political and economic reasons and the actual fighting of baffles to an organized army collaborating with, or subordinate to, political authorities. Many 2nd and 4th graders also showed a mixed pattern of answers, involving both political authorities and individual fighters, thus showing that the transition from the rudimentary backward conception to the more advanced one occurs through the piecemeal addition and deletion of concepts and beliefs.
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页码:478 / 496
页数:19
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