Rituals and patterns in children's lives

"Trick-or-treating. Bedtime stories. Bar and bat mitzvah. In a nation of increasing ethnic, familial, and technological complexity, the patterns of children's lives both persist and evolve. Rituals and Patterns in Children's Lives, edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson, considers how such events shape identity and transmit cultural norms." "Addressing past and present, males and females, elite and popular culture, Rituals and Patterns In Children's Lives suggests the manifold ways in which America's children come to know their society and themselves."--Jacket.