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Questions:

1. Select a form of children's symbolic culture (media, literature, or legends). How is this related to material culture for contemporary childhood? What does the research show us about children's understanding or use of this aspect of culture?

2. Why and how do preschool children protect their interactive space? What is the purpose of friendship in this context? Make sure to use examples to illustrate your responses.

3. How does social differentiation change across childhood (from toddler/preschool years to preadolescence)? What can we see about children's interpretations of gender, race, or class based on what we understand about their interactions?

4. Preadolescents create peer cultures that are each like mini-subcultures (Gary Alan Fine, referenced a few times in these chapters, called them tiny publics or idioculture - these are not terms you are required to learn, but interesting nonetheless!). Think about what goes on in the local peer cultures of preadolescents (especially the cliques). How do things like (best) friendships, status hierarchies, competition, conflict, disputes, social identities, and routines within these demonstrate this particularly well? Use examples (in your own words)!

5. Select one of the following concepts: sharing rituals, collaborative emergence, status hierarchies, oppositional talk, situated activities, children's lore, he-said-she-said confrontation, border work. Explain this concept and relate it to one of your responses above.