Childhood
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- Created on: 14-04-16 14:48
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- Childhood Key Theorists
- Aries
- Childhood is socially constructed and a recent invention.
- Middle ages
- Childhood didn't exist. Regarded as little adults.
- work with adults
- Dress like adults
- Behave like adults
- Childhood didn't exist. Regarded as little adults.
- 16th - 18th century
- Industrial revolution
- Child labour widespread
- Middle class
- Rich parents
- Kids sent to schools to be educated
- Education introduced
- Kids sent to schools to be educated
- Rich parents
- Industrial revolution
- Middle ages
- short life expectancy - difficult to invest emotion
- children in the past seen as mini adults
- They were an economic asset - help economy with money
- 19th Century
- factory act banned child employment
- mines
- End of century: education = compulsory
- Factories
- End of century: education = compulsory
- Factories
- mines
- factory act banned child employment
- 20th - 21st Century
- Separate degrees of childhood
- Teens
- Experts in children e.g Psychologists
- Tweenagers
- Experts in children e.g Psychologists
- Teens
- The century of the child.
- children have become and economic liability.
- lost their independence
- children have become and economic liability.
- Separate degrees of childhood
- Childhood is socially constructed and a recent invention.
- Cross culture
- Punch
- Somoan village: too young is not a reason. if a child thinks they can do it they will
- Holmes
- Rural Bolivia: kids work age 5
- Firth
- Tikopia: do what your told is a grant given by a child not expected from an adult
- Punch
- March of progress
- Position of children in western societies has improved.
- childhood is a special time
- children are different from adults
- childhood is a special time
- Position of children in western societies has improved.
- Seperateness
- Pilcher
- childhood = clean and distinct life stage
- Golden age
- should have a separate status from adults
- clothes
- toys
- language
- childhood = clean and distinct life stage
- Pilcher
- British kids said to be the most unhappy in the West
- Womack
- Family breakdown
- causes childhood angst.
- 1/3 kids live away from biological parents
- increase in obesity,
- substance abuse
- anti social behaviour
- Gittens
- Age patriarchy
- Children pushed down by adults and oppressed
- Age patriarchy
- Family breakdown
- Womack
- wicked and sinful kids.
- Stainton-rodgers
- innocent and wholesome child
- welfare view: protected from harm, food, clothing, shelter
- wicked and sinful child
- Control view: laws and restrictions, stranger danger, road safety.
- welfare view: protected from harm, food, clothing, shelter
- Control view: laws and restrictions, stranger danger, road safety.
- innocent and wholesome child
- Stainton-rodgers
- Child centred families in the 19th century made the american family a success = progression
- Berger and Berger
- Gender
- Girls get less freedom than boys
- Girls get more time with parents than boys do
- girls do more domestic labour
- Class
- high class children have more opportunities
- middle class have more time for their kids than working class
- poorer kids have more time with friends and tv than richer kids do
- Ethnicity
- Chinese parents are stricter on education
- asian parents are more likely to be stricter on their daughters
- Gender
- Berger and Berger
- Blurred lines due to lack of stability in adults
- Lee
- Social construction of childhood is changing
- childhood used to be seen as unstable now adults are more unstable
- higher divorce rates
- jobs
- debts
- childhood used to be seen as unstable now adults are more unstable
- Social construction of childhood is changing
- Lee
- Mass media spoiling childhood
- Postman
- only exist when kids can be separated and protected from adult world
- media = no more secrets. kids exposed to more e.g sex, drugs, crime .
- childhood disappearing
- Postman
- childhood exists as they have their own games and rhymes.
- opie
- Bacock
- children are important consumers
- influencing the capitalist products.
- products aimed towards kids
- economic contributors
- products aimed towards kids
- influencing the capitalist products.
- children are important consumers
- Palmer
- Toxic childhood
- media and modern technology has impacted on children leading to toxic childhood syndrome
- Toxic childhood
- Melanie phillips
- kids have too many rights
- Peers more important than parents
- Innocence of childhood has gone
- Innocence of childhood has gone
- Peers more important than parents
- culture of parenting broken down
- kids have too many rights
- Aries
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