A classic ethnographic study of enculturation in several parts of the world conducted by the anthropologists John W.M. Whiting (1908-1995) and Beatrice B. Whiting (1914-2003). It was initiated in 1954 as the Six Culture Study of Socialization of the Child and the main findings were published by the Whitings in 1975. The study had involved comparing every day behaviours of children in the six different cultures and reported on cultural values and practice, adult‚was ideas and expectations about children, and how children play and work
. See Enculturation, Socialization