Contemporary Perspectives on Childhood
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- Contemporary perspectives of childhood
- Postman: the disappearance of childhood
- Childhood is no longer a distinctive stage in the life course.
- The growth of mass media has exposed children to adult world.
- Sex, suffering and death.
- Difference between adulthood and childhood has blurred.
- Children dressing more like adults.
- Adults trying to act more youthful.
- Lack of clear cut transition between childhood and adulthood
- Children as consumers
- Children seen as economic assets (Marxist)
- Evans and Chandler - children persuade parents to buy more designer goods.
- Jenks - the continuing distinctiveness of childhood
- Increased concern over the loss of innocence of children.
- Children are still restricted to what they can and cannot do (UK legal ages)
- Childhood is not as yet disappearing.
- The conventional approach to childhood
- Functionalist and New Right
- They see children as a vulnerable group who need protecting from the dangers of adulthood.
- Phillips - Liberal ideas of parenting have given children too many rights, and children have lost their innocence due to peer pressure and mass media.
- Mayall - new sociology of children
- Children are adultist - biased in favour of adults at the expense of children.
- Children's rights???
- Postman: the disappearance of childhood
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