Strategies Developed by Children to Cope with Punishment: a Dialogue Between Psychology and Social Networks Theory

Abstract

The main objective of this exploratory descriptive research was toidentify the strategies developed by children between 7 and 12 yearsold from southwest Bogota to cope with punishment and to adaptthemselves to their sociocultural and home environments.Anthropological methods have been used in this research because eventhough Psychology allows for a general conceptualization of this issue,Anthropology provides different tools for the understanding of thecultural and social elements in which the child lives. This research iscomposed by two different parts, in the first one children strategiesto cope punishment are identified through semi-structured interviews.In the second part, through life histories, the social and culturalsystem of four children is described. Thus, results and discussion areseparated according to this two moments, in order to try to present adialogue between psychology and socials networks theory.