美国曼哈顿上东区“育儿战争”的文化解码

The Cultural Decoding of the“Parenting Wars”on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in the U.S.A

“育儿焦虑”已是全球教育和育儿妈妈面临的重要议题。作为当代人类学作品,作者薇妮斯蒂·马丁以美国曼哈顿上东区为田野调查点,通过长达六年的深度参与式观察,描述了为争取优质教育资源闯入上东区进行“艰苦卓绝”的育儿战争的亲身经历。作者以个人经历的关键事件和跌宕起伏的情感体验为叙事发展线,勾勒了上东区的社会文化图景,并对研究对象的行为模式、情感模式及其社群文化结构,进行了概念建构、结构剖析和意义解释。最后,提出现代社会“育儿焦虑”的文化解码,可以尝试从“密集育儿”向“社群照顾、合作共育”的理念转变。

“Parenting anxiety”has become an important issue in global education.As a work of contemporary anthropology,Stephanie Martin took Manhattan’s upper east side in the United States as her research field,dealing with six years of participatory observation,depth described for high quality education resources into the upper east side of“arduous”parenting war experience.The author personally experienced the ups and downs of the key events and emotional experience for narrative development line,draw the outline of the upper east side of the social and cultural landscape,and to study the mums’behavior models,emotional models,and social cultural structure,the construction of concept,structure analysis and significance explanation,and finally put forward the culture of the modern social anxiety“parenting”decoding can shift from the“intensive parenting”to the idea of“community care,cooperation parenting”.