sociology childhood
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- Created on: 12-10-18 11:02
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- CHILDHOOD TOPIC
- Conflict views
- inequality between adults
- firestone: children are being controlled not protected
- this makes them dependent on parents and vulnerable
- children in unhealth families act out eg. smoke to exaggerate their age
- firestone: children are being controlled not protected
- inequality between children
- ETHNIC
- Brannen: Asian children are more likely to study
- GENDER
- Hilman: boys are more likely to go out alone in the dark
- CLASS
- poor families are higher death rates
- ETHNIC
- inequality between adults
- western notions of childhood
- children lack skills, knowledge and experiance
- children need protection and nurturing
- PILTCHER(1995) believed in separateness, childhood and adulthood are clearly different.
- education
- responsibilitie
- law restrictions
- what they eat and wear
- BENEDICT children in similar, non-industrial societies and treated differently
- work at a young age
- less value of adult authority (Tikopia)
- lack age restrictions on sexual behaviour
- Disappearing childhood
- JENKS: childhood is changing with socoiety
- need to be nurtured by famil
- moving to modern to postmodern
- POSTMAN: children have become more like adults.
- same cloths
- literal abbilities
- technology gives them access to everything
- OPIE:: childhood is not disappearing,
- same rhymes, songs, poems
- JENKS: childhood is changing with socoiety
- Historical changes
- Aries- believed children in the middle ages were like "mini adults"
- same punishments
- same manners
- wore the same cloths and ate the same food
- same punishments
- BUT his proof was a picture... biased?
- he also just looked at Europe
- Reason for change
- church sow children as frigile
- handbooks on parenthood
- schools focused on education
- Aries- believed children in the middle ages were like "mini adults"
- Conflict views
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