Publications: 1980-1989

  • 1989Gallimore, R., Weisner, T.S., Kaufman, S., & L. Bernheimer. (1989). The social construction of ecocultural niches: Family accommodation of developmentally delayed children. American Journal of Mental Retardation 94(3)216-230. Weisner, T.S. (1989). Social Support for Children Among the Abaluyia of Kenya. In D. Belle (Ed.). Children’s Social Networks and Social Supports. New York: Wiley, pp. 70-90. Weisner, T.S. (1989). Comparing Sibling Relationships Across Cultures. In P. Zukow (Ed.). Sibling Interactions Across Cultures. Theoretical and Methodological Issues. New York: Springer- Verlag, pp. 11-25.
  • 1988Weisner, T.S. (1988). Review of Michael Lamb (Ed.). The Father’s Role. Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Contemporary Psychology , 33(7):594-595. Weisner, T.S., Gallimore, R., & C. Jordan. (1988). Unpackaging Cultural Effects on Classroom Learning: Hawaiian Peer Assistance and Child-Generated Activity. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 19:327-353. [Also reprinted in R. N. Roberts (Ed.). (1993). Coming home to preschool: The sociocultural context of early education. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing, pp. 59-87.]
  • 1987Weisner, T.S. (1987). Socialization for Parenthood in Sibling Caretaking Societies. In Lancaster, J., Rossi, A., Altmann,J., & L. Sherrod (Eds.). Parenting Across the Life Span. New York: Aldine Press, pp. 237-270. Weisner, T.S. (1987). Review of J. Wertsch, Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind. American Anthropologist. 89:479-480. Weisner, T.S. (1987). Review of Children, Parenthood and Social Welfare in the Context of Developmental Psychology. Child Development Abstracts 61(3):326.
  • 1986Weisner, T.S. (1986). Implementing New Relationship Styles in Conventional and Nonconventional American Families. In Hartup, W., & Z. Rubin (Eds.). Relationships and Development. New Jersey:LEA Press, pp. 185-206. Weisner, T.S., & B. Eiduson. (1986). Children of the ’60’s As Parents. Psychology Today 20(1):60-66.
  • 1985Zetlin, A., Weisner, T.S., & R. Gallimore. (1985). Diversity, Shared Functioning, and the Role of Benefactors: A Study of Parenting By Retarded Persons. In S.K. Thurman (Ed.). Children of Handicapped Parents: Research and Clinical Perspectives. New York: Academic Press, pp. 69-95.Weisner, T.S. (1985). Review of Charlotte G. O’Kelly, Women and Men in Society. Women and Politics 5(1):107-110.
  • 1984Weisner, T.S. (1984). The Social Ecology of Childhood: A Cross-Cultural View. In Lewis, M., & L. Rosenblum (Eds.). Social Connections Beyond the Dyad. New York: Plenum, pp. 43-58. Weisner, T.S. (1984). A Cross-Cultural Perspective: Ecocultural Niches of Middle Childhood. In Andrew Collins (Ed.). The Elementary School Years: Understanding Development During Middle Childhood. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, pp. 335-369. Weisner, T.S., Weibel, J., & J. Long. (1984). Serious Drinking, White Man’s Drinking and Teetotaling: Predictors of Drinking Levels in an Urban Indian Population. Journal of Studies on Alcohol , 45(3):237-250. [Also reprinted in Native Americans and Substance Abuse. Minneapolis, MN: Institute on chemical abuse, 1993.]
  • 1983Weisner, T.S., Bausano, M., & M. Kornfein. (1983). Putting Family Ideals into Practice: Pronaturalism in Conventional and Nonconventional California Families. Ethos, 11(4):278-304.
  • 1982Eiduson, B., Kornfein, M., Zimmerman, I.L., & T. S. Weisner. (1982). Comparative Socialization Practices in Alternative Family Settings. In M. Lamb (Ed.). Nontraditional Families. New York: Plenum. pp. 315-345. [Also reprinted in G. Handel (Ed.), Childhood Socialization. NY: Aldine, 1988, pp. 73 – 101.]Weisner, T.S. (1982). Sibling Interdependence and Child Caretaking: A Cross-Cultural View. In Lamb, M., & B. Sutton-Smith, (Eds.). Sibling Relationships: Their Nature and Significance Across the Lifespan. Hillsdale, NJ: LEA Press. pp. 305-327. [Also reprinted in R. Wozniak (Ed.). (1993). Worlds of Childhood Reader. New York: HarperCollins, pp. 343-349.]Weisner, T.S., & D. Price-Williams. (1982) Review of Bruce Lincoln, Emerging from the Chrysalis. Studies in Rituals of Women’s Initiation. The Sciences, Journal of the New York Academy of Sciences 22(9):29-31.Weisner, T.S., Gallimore, R., & C. Jordan. (1982). Technical Report #99. Demographic Description of KEEP Families in Cohorts I Through V, By Sample Source and Cohort. Honolulu: The Kamehameha Early Education Program.Weisner, T.S., Gallimore, R., & R. Tharp. (1982). Concordance Between Ethnographer and Folk Perspectives: Observed Performance and Self-Ascription of Sibling Caretaking Roles. Human Organization 41(3):237-244.Weisner, T.S. (1982). As We Choose: Family Life Styles, Social Class, and Compliance. In Kennedy, J.G., & R. B. Edgerton (Eds.). Culture and Ecology: Eclectic Perspectives. Special Publication No. 15, American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., pp. 121-141.
  • 1981Weisner, T.S. (1981). Cities, Stress, and Children: A Review of Some Cross-Cultural Questions. In Munroe, R. H., Munroe, R. L., & B. B. Whiting (Eds.). Handbook of Cross-Cultural Human Development. New York and London: Garland STPM Press. pp. 783-808.Weisner, T.S., & J. C. Weibel. (1981). Home Environments and Family Lifestyles in California. Environment and Behavior 13:417-460.Weisner, T.S. (1981). Conceptualizing Experimental Family Lifestyles: The Child’s Eye View. Vanier Institute of the Family, Ottawa, Canada
  • 1980Levine, H.G., Gallimore, R., Weisner,T.S., & J.L. Turner. (1980). Teaching Participant-Observation Research Methods: A Skills- Building Approach. Anthropology and Education Quarterly 11:38-54.