Childhood socialization / Gerald Handel, editor.

PART I : Socialization, individualization, and the self
Socialization and individuation / William Damon
Socialization and the social self / Gerald Handel
PART II : Childhood history
Little angels, little devils : a sociology of children / Anthony Synnott
PART III : Families as socializing agents
The mutuality of parental control in early childhood / H. Rudolph Schaffer
As the twig is bent : children reared in feminist household / Barbara J. Risman and Kristin Myers / Racial socialization / Shirley A. Hill
PART IV : Day care and nursery school as socialization agents
Power and resistance in infant-toddler day care centers / Robin Lynn Leavitt
Cooperation and control in Japanese nursery schools / Catherine C. Lewis
PART V : Schools as Socialization agents
Schools and socialization / Steven Brint
PART VI : Peer groups as socialization agents
Children's conception and reaction to adult rules : the underlife of the nursery school / William Corsaro
The carpool : a socializing adjunct to the educational experience / Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler
Friend, impression management, and preadolescent behavior / Gary Alan Fine
PART VII : Television and its influence
Theoretical perspectives / Judith Van Evra
Children's desires/mothers' dilemmas : the social contexts of consumption / Ellen Seiter
PART VIII : Gender socialization
Engendering children / Scott Coltrane
Male gender socialization and the perpetration of sexual abuse / Davis Lisak
PART IX : Social stratification and inequality in socialization
Concerted cultivation and the accomplishment of natural growth / Annette Lareau
Clashes in values / Julia Wrigley
Social class and the hidden curriculum of work / Jean Anyon.