Childhood
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 16-04-14 10:29
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- Childhood
- Notions of childhood
- Modern western
- Childhood is seen as a golden age, that is exempt from all responsibility, skill and experience
- Just a time for fun and free of all worries
- Complete separate life-stage to adulthood
- Parents provide and protect their children, so kids don't need a job
- Childhood is seen as a golden age, that is exempt from all responsibility, skill and experience
- Cross-Cultural differences
- Children take responsibility at a young age - in rural areas kids are there for an extra income
- There is no concept of too young, children handle dangerous task and tools
- Less value is stressed on obedience from adults
- Historical differences
- Aries
- Said that childhood has changed through the ages
- In the pre-industrial era childhood do not really exist, children took on the same responsibilities as adults and were seen as economic attributes
- In the industrial era children where seen as something you could take advantage of and was something that could be expolited
- They were promised with food and pay but only got hard labour and little pay, many children died due to poor working conditions
- The upper children wore different clothes to adults and also went to school
- They were promised with food and pay but only got hard labour and little pay, many children died due to poor working conditions
- In the post-industrial era, children were seen as different to adults
- With help from laws (like the 1889 Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act) and the 1880 compulsory school act meant children now did less work and were treated differently
- Said that childhood has changed through the ages
- Aries
- Modern western
- The future of childhood
- Postman
- Said that childhood was disappearing "at a dazzling speed"
- Through the media, TV and video games the line between adulthood and childhood is blearing as children act, talk and dress more like adults
- This leads them to commit crime like an adult and will then receive adult punishments
- For example, the James Bugler case were 2 10 years old's murdered a 2 year old and they were imprisoned for 20 years
- This leads them to commit crime like an adult and will then receive adult punishments
- Through the media, TV and video games the line between adulthood and childhood is blearing as children act, talk and dress more like adults
- Said that childhood was disappearing "at a dazzling speed"
- Opie
- Is Postman's revival
- She says that children culture will always remain as by nature, children will make games and songs that make them distinctively a child
- Is Postman's revival
- Postman
- Has the position of children improved?
- The "march to progress" view
- Today, children are more valued, better cared for (through laws and professions), protected and educated - better than ever before!
- The government spend £65 billion a year on education
- Families are now child-centred, with parents work and leisure life revolving around their children
- Due to education children now have better opportunities are more to aspire to
- Today, children are more valued, better cared for (through laws and professions), protected and educated - better than ever before!
- The conflict view
- Their are inequalities among children, with some getting more chances and opportunities than others due to economic, gender and racial reasons
- Children have more control and oppression over them
- Abuse caes on children have increased, with childline recieveing 20,000 calls a year
- Parents now control what chidren where and their daily routines
- Gittins
- Uses the term "age patriarchy" to describe inequalities between children and adults
- Men maintain control in the household through violence against women and children
- Children act-up through drinking and smoking to be seen as adults
- Adults act-down to to children, belittling them
- Men maintain control in the household through violence against women and children
- Uses the term "age patriarchy" to describe inequalities between children and adults
- The "march to progress" view
- Notions of childhood
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