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Social construct

Ideas accepted by society based on cultural practise

Pre industrial childhood

High infant mortality rate

Pre industrial childhood

Punished the same as adults for any crime committed

Aries

“Concept of childhood did not exist in pre industrial era”

Aries

Argued children were treated like miniature adults

Pollock and Wilson

Criticises aires because aires used upper class for his research

20th century childhood chambers

Sheltered childhood became popular in the late 19th century

Factory act 1833

Age restrictions late 1880s restrictions on women and children working

Cunningham

Child centred society


Childhood is regarded the opposite of childhood

Wells 2009

State interference entirely organised around children

Stephen Waugh 1992

Childhood is socially constructed. There is no one single childhood

Factors that influence childhood

Family relationship


Gender


Religion


Social class

Global experience Benedict

Developing countries


1.take responsibility at earlier age


2. Less value placed on children showing obedience to adults


3. Sexual behaviour viewed differently

Age patriarchy

Gittens 1998- clear inequalities between adults and children

Middle class childhood

Cultural capital through sports and artistic activities

Working class childhood

Providing basic needs eg food and safety


Natural growth of

New right and childhood

Postman 1994- childhood is disappearing because tv and media is making childhood shorter

Phillips 1997 children’s innocence is disappearing and parenthood is breaking

.Government and state policies have given children more rights


. Media and peer groups are more influential then parents now