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Developmental and social determinants of religious social categorization

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Van der Straten Waillet, Nastasya [UCL] Roskam, Isabelle [UCL]

The purpose of this study was to assess developmental and social determinants of the age at which children become aware that the social environment can be categorized into religious groups and that those groups are associated with different religious beliefs. The results show that middle childhood is a critical period for this religious social categorization. Moreover, social factors play a role in the development. Religious categorization is likely to appear sooner in children attending heterogeneous schools than in those at homogeneous schools, and children from the minority religious group in the country understand religious categorization earlier than children from the majority group. No relation was found however between the age at which religious categorization was understood and parents’ religious socialization practices. The interests of this study are both theoretical and practical: it complements what is already known about gender, race and ethnic categorization by integrating developmental and social frameworks, and it can serve as a guideline for educational programs.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article)
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2011
Language Anglais
Journal information "The Journal of Genetic Psychology" - Vol. 173, no. 2, p. 208-220 (2012)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 0022-1325
e-issn 1940-0896
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
Keywords Social categorization ; Development ; Religion ; Children
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Bibliographic reference Van der Straten Waillet, Nastasya ; Roskam, Isabelle. Developmental and social determinants of religious social categorization. In: The Journal of Genetic Psychology, Vol. 173, no. 2, p. 208-220 (2012)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/76697