Nancy Chodorow Professions : Sociologist Born : January 20, 1944 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Nancy Chodorow The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother Nancy Chodorow daughter mother children Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not collapse when he has to stand alone. It is not an independence of needs for other persons with whom to have relationship: that would not be desired by the mature. Nancy Chodorow independence mature-person maturity Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And things always go wrong. We respond with apologies; we continue to apologize long after the event is forgotten - and even if it had no causal relation to anything we did to begin with. Nancy Chodorow apology self long Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than paid work. Nancy Chodorow parenting inspire world A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not. Nancy Chodorow roles attention way Similar Authors Bruno Latour sociologist Alice S Rossi sociologist Beatrice Webb sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein sociologist Barrington Moore, Jr. sociologist Hubert M. Blalock sociologist All Authors
