Theories on childhood.
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- Childhood Theories
- Marxism
- In modern societies are prepared for work through testing in schools and compressing personalities in preparation for work.
- Childhood is exploited by capitalists, as children are actively encouraged to act as adult consumers i.e. pester power.
- POSTMAN- DISAPPEARANCE OF CHILDHOOD. Children and adults have similar rights and can access the adult world. They also imitate adult behaviours in dress and crime.
- Life is worse for working class children, through education, socialisation and their working life.
- Functionalism
- Young children are harmed by being given too many powers, weakening parental authority.
- Argue that a long period of dependency is necessary in modern industrial society, due to the length of mandatory education.
- Childhood has improved in the last 100 years in western societies
- PILCHER- western notion of childhood. Children/adults have separate statuses.
- New Right
- Children lack adult intelligence and moral senses.
- BENEDICT- Childhood is a social construction. Children in non-industrial societies take responsibility from a young age and aren't as obedient to adult authority.
- Children are harmed if they are pushed into adulthood too soon.
- Children are not protected enough at a young age and are over-protected in adolescence.
- FIRESTONE- Children are oppressed by the amount of control adults have over them
- Irresponsible dependency lasts to long and prolongs childhood, creating the 'BRAT'.
- Children lack adult intelligence and moral senses.
- Interactionism
- Childhood is a relatively new concept.
- ARIES- Notion of childhood has come about in the last 150 years.
- Children are subject to harmful amounts of surveillance, which harms their individual development.
- PALMER- TOXIC CHILDHOOD. Working parents have less time for children. They are vulnerable to damage from technology and fast foods- leading to obesity, self-harm, drug abuse and early parenthood.
- Childhood is a relatively new concept.
- Feminism
- Gender differences persist in spite of societal changes. i.e. girls are controlled by parents within the home and do more housework than boys.
- Marxism
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