make this what?
this drawing?
drawing on the walls?
is it socially acceptable?

> this drawing? drawing on the walls?

Yes both.

> is it socially acceptable?

It's done by a child, drawn in chalk, on the wall of a home, and the child lives in the tight knit community where the home is located.

Is it socially acceptable?
What makes it socially acceptable?
If not, what makes it not socially acceptable?

it depends.
if you know it's done by a kid, and it's not that difficult to remove it's very social acceptable
if you don't know and plus you have something against drawings on the wall then of course it's not.you just want to erase it.because you also hate graffiti and tags and stickers and stencils.
reminds me of the first blek le rat interventions.they were also simple and in chalk.and they were imediatly removed.so then again..who accepts what?the small comunity who knows the kid?the parents?
and then again.you can have a childish drawing done by an adult who happends to like the style.
so you can't isolate it from the context.what do the neighbours say?or the kid's friends?

Is it the child's own home?

If not, I suppose the factors that would make it socially acceptable are entirely dependent on the homeowner's own response. It's harmless graffiti, I suppose, and if it had been something more provocative, it would likely be less acceptable. It also depends upon how close the community is. Does this sort of thing happen often?

Not the childs home.
Whose to say its not provocative?
Whose to say whether the child knows its provocative?

Perhaps provocative is the wrong word, but I'm hard pressed to better define what I mean. I would say 'offensive,' but one might certainly be offended by chalk on their wall.

How can I judge whether or not it is socially acceptable without first being a member of the society? In my neighborhood, what may be unacceptable is perfectly acceptable in another.

An important factor would be in notions of public/private space. This shifts depending not only on culture, but also geographical space within that culture. I'd like to make some sort of socioeconomic claim here as well, but I'm not sure if that entirely fits. I know in American cities, it is much more "acceptable" to certain classes to find graffiti in a low-income neighborhood, but I'm not sure whether the residents would agree.

I would suggest, that this is acceptable because of the existence of an educational system and a society, where division of labour has taken place and a project to create a shared cultural identity is in the works.

The society, which has organized itself so that different work tasks are done by different people and wants to have a shared identity, needs an educational system. And for all the division of work and to scale up and the national spirit to spread out, the educational system must encompas literacy and writing education.

The educational system and division of labour have inbuilt mechanisms for guiding this "creation of stains on marking surfaces" into appropriate places using appropriate devices of marking and staining.

In this type of culture, where such systems of exist, a child has not been yet imposed and enforced to direct his/her writing/drawing/tagging into the surfaces, where adults do it. In my opinion, this is the reason. Or is it overinterpretation?

PS. What other "acceptables" there are than socially acceptables? :)