Most important feature of the modern idea of childhood is separateness. Clear & distinct life stage. Childhood = 'golden age' of happiness and innocence
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Wagg
All humans go through the same stages of physical development, different cultures construct or define this process differently.
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Punch
rural Bolivia. 5 year olds take on tasks without hesitation
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Holmes
Samoan village study - 'too young' never given as a reason for not permitting a child from doing a particular task.
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Aries
middle ages 'the idea of childhood didn't exist'. Children were not seen as having a different 'nature' or needs from adults
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Pollock
more correct to say that in the middle ages, society simply had a different notion of childhood from today
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Postman
Argues that childhood is 'disappearing at a dazzling speed'.
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Jenks
Doesn't believe childhood is disappearing but instead changing. Argues that childhood is changing again as society moves from modernity to post-modernity.
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Firestone + Holt
Argue that many of the things that march of progress writers see as care and protection are in fact oppression and control.
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Smart
New sociology of childhood. New approach aims to include the views and experiences of children themselves while they are living through childhood.
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Card 2
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All humans go through the same stages of physical development, different cultures construct or define this process differently.
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Wagg
Card 3
Front
rural Bolivia. 5 year olds take on tasks without hesitation
Back
Card 4
Front
Samoan village study - 'too young' never given as a reason for not permitting a child from doing a particular task.
Back
Card 5
Front
middle ages 'the idea of childhood didn't exist'. Children were not seen as having a different 'nature' or needs from adults
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