Diversity, Early Socialization, and Temporal Development: The Dual Perspective Revisited

Although the dual perspective should be used to focus on diversity, it should be applied within the context of an anthropological-ecological framework to prevent stereotyping, to illuminate the universal goals of societal organization underlying human behavior, and to explore the early socialization of children. This view is illustrated with preliminary findings from an ongoing longitudinal study of lower socioeconomic inner-city African American children that examines the importance of a sense of time, its evolution in early socialization, and the relationship of parent-child interactions to the development of a sense of time.