Topic 2: Childhood (notes)
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- Childhood
- Childhood as a social construction
- Modern western notion of childhood
- PILCHER
- The most important feature to childhood is seperateness
- Separate status to adults
- Laws
- Dress
- Toys
- Entertainment
- Books
- 'Golden age' of innocence and happiness
- Children are seen as vulnerable and unable to fend for themselves
- PILCHER
- Cross-cultural differences
- BENEDICT
- Treated differently in three ways
- Take responsibility at an early age
- PUNCH
- Rural Bolivia - children are expected to work from the age of 5
- PUNCH
- Less value placed on children showing obedience and adult authority
- Childrens sexual behaviour is viewed differently
- Take responsibility at an early age
- Treated differently in three ways
- Historical differenes
- Schools - became all about educating the younf
- Clothing - 17th century boys would be dressed in 'an outfit reversed from is own age group to set him apart from the adults
- Books were widely available - growing child centerdness around family life
- BENEDICT
- Changes in the position of children
- Laws
- Compulsory schooling
- Child protection and welfare legislation
- Child's rights
- Declining family size
- Children's health and development became medical knowledge
- Modern western notion of childhood
- Has the position of children improved?
- MOP
- Has been steadily improving and it's better than it's ever been
- ARIES and SHORTER
- Today's children are more valued and cared for act
- IMR in 1900 was 154 per 1000 births. Now its 5 per 1000 births
- Higher standards of living
- Smaller families
- Conflict view
- Inequalities among children
- Gender
- Class
- Inequalities among children and adults
- Neglect and abuse
- 2006 - 31,400 children were at risk of harm
- Controls over children's space
- Controls over time
- Control over bodies
- Access to resources
- Age patriarchy
- Inequalities among children
- MOP
- The future of childhood
- Disappearance of childhood
- POSTMAN
- Childhood is disappearing at a dazzling speed
- Middle ages - children were able to enter adulthood at an early age
- 19th century - Sharp division as adults could read and children could not
- TV blurs the distinction. Destroying information hirearchy
- Doesn't take any skills to access it
- POSTMAN
- A separate childhood culture
- OPIE
- Childhood is not disappearing
- Strong evidence to suggest differentiation between adults and children
- Nursery rhymes and songs
- Books
- Games
- OPIE
- Globalisation of western childhood
- Reconstruction of childhood?
- PALMER
- 'toxic childhood'
- Technology has effect children's development
- Children are top of the tables for drug use, self harm ect
- PALMER
- Disappearance of childhood
- Childhood as a social construction
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