MATERNAL NARRATIVE AND SOCIALIZATION. A LONGITUDINAL STUDY ON EIGHT DYADS

Abstract

The aim of this article is to identify culturally relevant scripts in the playful maternal narrative that allow identifying possible mothers’ intentions and derive assumptions about the effect of maternal narratives on early socialization. Methodology: An inductive microanalysis of interactions coded the naturalistic game of eight dyads at six weeks, six months and one year of the baby. Grounded Theory reveals the most frequent patterns. It concludes the maternal narratives that are articulated with everyday objects point to cultural meanings to make them accessible to the infant, appealing to everyday scripts and thus conforming to social orientations.