Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Role of Culture in Children's Social World -- Section 1: What Children Learn -- Chapter 2. Children's Social Identity: Developing Selves and Expanding Social Worlds -- Chapter 3. Children's Management of Attention as Cultural Practice -- Chapter 4. Culture, Communication, and Sociocognitive Development: Understanding the Minds of Others -- Chapter 5. Emotional Development: Cultural Influences on Young Children's Emotional Competence -- Chapter 6. Young Children's Gender Development -- Chapter 7. Sharing and Caring: Prosocial Behavior in Young Children Around the World -- Chapter 8. Peer Interactions: Culture and Peer Conflict during Preschool Years -- Chapter 9. Together or Better Singular? German Middle Class Children's Problem Solving in Dyads and Triads -- Section 2. Socialization of Young Children -- Chapter 10. Parenting: Talking with Children across Cultural Contexts -- Chapter 11. The Sibling Relationship in Ecocultural Context -- Chapter 12. The Roles of Grandparents in Child Development: A Cultural Approach -- Chapter 13. Japanese Preschool Approaches to Supporting Young Children's Social-Emotional Development -- Section 3. Children in Different Situations -- Chapter 14. Socialization and Development of Refugee Children: Chances of Childcare -- Chapter 15. Children's Perspectives of Risk and Protection -- Chapter 16. Young Children in Institutional Care: Characteristics of Institutions, Children's Development, and Interventions in Institutions -- Section 4: Conclusions -- Chapter 17. Children's Culturally Enriched Social Development. .

This book addresses cultural variability in children's social worlds, examining the acquisition, development, and use of culturally relevant social competencies valued in diverse cultural contexts. It discusses the different aspects of preschoolers' social competencies that allow children - including adopted, immigrant, or at-risk children - to create and maintain relationships, communicate, and to get along with other people at home, in daycare or school, and other situations. Chapters explore how children's social competencies reflect the features of the social worlds in which they live and grow. In addition, chapters examine the extent that different cultural value orientations manifest in children's social functioning and escribes how parents in autonomy-oriented cultures tend to value different social skills than parents with relatedness or autonomous-relatedness orientations. The book concludes with recommendations for future research directions. Topics featured in this book include: Gender development in young children. Peer interactions and relationships during the preschool years. Sibling interactions in western and non-western cultural groups. The roles of grandparents in child development. Socialization and development in refugee children. Child development within institutional care. Children's Social Worlds in Cultural Context is a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians/practitioners, and graduate students in developmental psychology, child and school psychology, social work, cultural anthropology, family studies, and education.