Aggression and Withdrawal in Children (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Aggression and Withdrawal in ChildrenHuman society is based largely upon the capacity of individual human beings to interpret and respond to the behavior of other human beings. The more cooperative and closely knit the structure of a given society becomes, the more demands are put upon individuals to respond to the needs of others. The teaching of these restraints and skills which are deemed essential for adult social participation commonly requires that simple, natwally preferred We of acting be interfered with and replaced by more complicated modes of behavior. Socializatiomis thus inevitably frustrating and necessarily genefates resistance and tendencies to behave aggressively toward the socializing agents. In our cultm'e the traditionally approved action in such cases consists of trying to bring the rebellious child to terms by means of physical punishment or counter-aggession. The consequences which these coercive measures have for personality formation will depend, in part, upon the sources of the child's hostility and the general nature of his adjustment up to that point in his life history. One may conclude then that it is the business of culture to frustrate and to check the agg'essions mobilized by those frustrations. (2)About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.