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The Social Network of the Young Child

A Developmental Perspective

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Imagine that one could invisibly watch a washday in a typical middle-class American home and watch a washday in a pretechnological Indian society in the Amazon basin.

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    Michael Lewis & Candice Feiring

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    Miriam Kotsonis

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Lewis, M., Feiring, C., Kotsonis, M. (1984). The Social Network of the Young Child. In: Lewis, M. (eds) Beyond The Dyad. Genesis of Behavior, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9415-1_7

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