Future of Childhood
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- Created on: 25-05-17 18:19
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- Future of childhood
- What is childhood now?
- Margo and Dixon
- Children are at the top of international league tables for obesity, self harm, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy
- Postman
- Childhood is disappearing through Information hierarchy, and social blurring
- Information Hierarchy
- Childhood become separate from adulthood as literacy becaimse more important
- growth of telly means there no secrets from kids. it give them unlimited access to the adulthood
- Children can't stay innocent as sex, disaster, death and suffering withheld from them
- Social blurring
- Adults dress their children in similar clothing
- Little distinction between adults and children
- Children have more access to the adult work via media
- Aspects of young culture increasingly enjoyed by adults
- Evaluation
- Opie: childhood isn't diapering, children hood culture,
- Fundredi; paranoid parents worry about the dangers children face, not letting them take risks prolonging status of children
- Margo and Dixon
- The 'New' Sociology of childhood
- Mayrell; there is a danger of seeing children as shaped by parents, should focus them as active agents creating own childhood
- Smart; divorce showed that children were actively involved in trying to make the situation better for everyone
- Postmodernism and childhood
- Jenks
- Childhood is not changing, rather its changing
- concern with preparing the individual for adulthood undeveloped,innocent and vulnerable child
- children need nurturing, protection and control
- Postmodernism society is rapid social change leading to greater instability
- Leads to increase parental anxiety and concern
- Increase the view that children are vulnerable and need protection
- Greater surveillance, supervision and regulation of childrens lives
- Increase the view that children are vulnerable and need protection
- Jenks
- What is childhood now?
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