childhood
- Created by: Rutendo Kanyangarara
- Created on: 05-06-18 18:47
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- Childhood
- childhood as a social construct
- expressed through laws-childhood is a 'golden age' of happiness
- cross-cultural differences in childhood
- anthropologist; Ruth Benedict(1934), children are often treated differently from their modern western counterparts
- 1)they take responsibility at an early age 2)less value is placed on children showing obedience to adult authority 3)children's sexual behaviour is often viewed differently
- anthropologist; Ruth Benedict(1934), children are often treated differently from their modern western counterparts
- the globalisation of western childhood
- western norms of what childhood; separate life stage
- historical differences in childhood
- Philippe Aries- middle ages; idea of childhood did not existed. children are miniadults
- childhood as a social construct
- the modern cult of childhood
- Aries argues that we have moved from a world that did not see childhood as in any way special, to a world that is obsessed with children-'century of the child'
- some sociologists have criticised Aries for arguing that childhood did not exist in the past
- Aries argues that we have moved from a world that did not see childhood as in any way special, to a world that is obsessed with children-'century of the child'
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