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Beatrice Blyth Whiting

Anthropology

#280

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#401

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#158

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Cultural Anthropology

#77

World Rank

#98

Historical Rank

#45

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Beatrice Blyth Whiting's Degrees

PhD Anthropology Columbia University
Masters Anthropology Columbia University
Bachelors Anthropology Barnard College

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According to Wikipedia, Beatrice Blyth Whiting , was an American anthropologist specializing in the comparative study of child development. Together with her husband John Whiting, she was a key figure in the Harvard Department of Social Relations and a pioneer in the cross-cultural study of childhood and child development.

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Beatrice Blyth Whiting's Published Works

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Children of Six Cultures: A Psycho-Cultural Analysis (1975) (1126)
Children of Different Worlds: The Formation of Social Behavior (1990) (770)
My Brother's Keeper: Child and Sibling Caretaking [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (487)
The Anatomy of Envy: A Study in Symbolic Behavior [and Comments and Reply] (1972) (405)
A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Sex Differences in the Behavior of Children Aged Three Through 11 (1973) (358)
Six cultures : studies of child rearing (1964) (317)
Handbook of cross-cultural human development (1981) (278)
Culture and Social Behavior: A Model for the Development of Social Behavior (1980) (231)
Aloofness and Intimacy of Husbands and Wives (1975) (112)
A. The problem of the packaged variable (1976) (101)
The problem of the packaged variable (1976) (78)
The Effect of Social Change on Concepts of the Good Child and Good Mothering: A Study of Families in Kenya (1996) (41)
Differential socialization of girls and boys in light of cross‐cultural research (1980) (39)
Taira: an Okinawan village (1966) (35)
Culture and human development: Contributions of anthropology to the methods of studying child rearing (1993) (19)
Culture and human development: Altruistic and egoistic behavior in six cultures (1993) (19)
Sex Identity Conflict and Physical Violence: A Comparative Study (2009) (15)
Changing Lifestyles in Kenya (1977) (14)
Ngecha: A Kenyan Village in a Time of Rapid Social Change (2004) (13)
Six Cultures: Studies of Child Rearing (1964) (12)
THE KENYAN CAREER WOMAN: TRADITIONAL AND MODERN (1973) (11)
Women and Dependency (1974) (9)
Women As Agents Of Social Change (2004) (4)
Freud in the Field (2001) (3)
Changing Concepts Of The Good Child And Good Mothering (2004) (3)
The historical stage (2004) (3)
The Effect of Urbanization on the Behavior of Children. (1969) (3)
The Meaning of Independence and Responsibility (1998) (2)
Comments by John and Beatrice Blyth Whiting (1999) (1)
COMMISSIONERS CONSIDER PLANNED MONORAIL SYSTEM (1973) (1)
CHILD WORK AND CHILD LABOUR IN NIGERIA : CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATION GENESIS OF INTEREST IN CHILD (1)
An Excerpt From Six Cultures; Studies of Child Rearing (2000) (1)
Consider family life style. (1972) (1)
Learning Techniques of Persuasion: An Analysis of Sequences of Interaction. (1977) (1)
ETHNOLOGY: Childhood in Rakau: The First Five Years of Life. Jane Ritchie.: Rakau Children: From Six to Thirteen Years. Margaret Jane Earle (1961) (1)
Problems of American Middle-Class Women in Their Middle Years (1984) (1)
Appendix C. Samples of Five-Minute Observations (1975) (0)
Film: Faces of Change, A Series: Introduction (1977) (0)
The Village And Its Families (2004) (0)
4. The Effect of Culture on the Social Behavior of Children (1975) (0)
5. Differences within Cultures (1975) (0)
Anthropology in Trouble at NIMH (1979) (0)
An Alternative Strategy for Studying The Transmission of Culture (1984) (0)
Background And Contexts (2004) (0)
ANNE MILLSPUGH (COOKE) SMITH 1900-1981 (1982) (0)
Appendix A. Examples of Twelve Summary Act Categories (1975) (0)
Bibliography on personality and social development of the child . And Selected ethnographic sources on child training (1953) (0)
Anthropology and Aging: Comprehensive Reviews. R. L. RUBINSTEIN with J. KEITH, D. SHENK, and D. WIELAND (1994) (0)
8. Regression Analysis (1975) (0)
An Introduction to a Biocultural Approach to Sex Differences. (1987) (0)
Appendix B. Code for Behavior Observations (1975) (0)
General and Theoretical: Many Wives, Many Powers: Authority and Power in Polygynous Families. REMI CLIGNET (1971) (0)
2. Setting and Sample (1975) (0)
7. The Status of the Target (1975) (0)
Blackjack's Family. Directed and filmed by William Donker and David Milholland (1976) (0)
The Effect of Modernization on Socialization. (1974) (0)
6. Sex and Age (1975) (0)

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