Wrongdoing and Retribution: Children's Conceptions of Illness Causality in a Central Indian Village

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Summary

By arguing that children do not simply replicate adult conceptions about illness causality but instead apply their own experience to their understanding and representation of such ideas, this paper challenges taken-for-granted assumptions about the acquisition and reproduction of cultural knowledge.

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article
Published
2007-12-01
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Keywords

Wrongdoing, Retributive justice, Causality (physics), Criminology, Causation

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