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Card 6

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Western cultures define children as vulnerable and unable to fend for themselves, other cultures do not see much difference between childhood and adulthood.

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Card 7

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looking at the social construction of childhood by taking a comparitive approach looking as children in time and place to the now.

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Card 8

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~they take responsibility at a young age - PUNCH supports this with her study of rural bolivia, where children had to work in the community and at home at the age of 5. Same with HOLMES study of a samon villiage where 'too young' was no excuse if a

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Card 9

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less value is placed on the child who shows obedience for adult authority for an example doing what you are told be an adult is a concession given by the child, not a right expected by the adult

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Card 10

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HISTORICAL DIFFERENCES IN CHILDHOOD

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Card 11

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childhood in the middle ages a s a seperate age status from adults was short, once weaned the child entered wider society like an adult.

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Card 12

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Parental attitudes were also different - SHORTER argues that high death rates created indifference and neglect especially toward infants it want not uncommon for newborns to be given the name of a recently dead sibling or be referred to as 'it'

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Card 13

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a growing distinction of clothing to differ children from adults, evident in upper class a boy would have a dress of his age group.

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Card 14

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ARIES: 'we have moved from a world where childhood wasnt seen as special to a world that is obsessed with childhood describing the 20th century as 'the century of the child'

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Card 15

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~laws that restrict child labour and exclude children from paid work ~introduction of compulsory schooling in 1880 had an effect especially on the poor also the raising of the school leaving age has raised the length of dependency

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