hockey & james
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- Created on: 09-03-19 21:20
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- Growing up & Growing old - Hockey & James 1993
- say that children are seen to lack the status of personhood
- link old age & childhood saying they are socially constructed the same
- losing their 'personhood'
- largely confines to places for children like schools, nurseries & families
- seen as the opposite of adults, seen as vulnerable & innocent
- are growing up separated & excluded from the public, adult world
- in their research clients in a care home were treated like children
- hockey & james argue that it was not based on medical needs
- argue that such an identity is possible to resist
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