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18 Cards in this Set
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Social construct |
Ideas accepted by society based on cultural practise |
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Pre industrial childhood |
High infant mortality rate |
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Pre industrial childhood |
Punished the same as adults for any crime committed |
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Aries |
“Concept of childhood did not exist in pre industrial era” |
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Aries |
Argued children were treated like miniature adults |
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Pollock and Wilson |
Criticises aires because aires used upper class for his research |
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20th century childhood chambers |
Sheltered childhood became popular in the late 19th century |
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Factory act 1833 |
Age restrictions late 1880s restrictions on women and children working |
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Cunningham |
Child centred society Childhood is regarded the opposite of childhood |
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Wells 2009 |
State interference entirely organised around children |
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Stephen Waugh 1992 |
Childhood is socially constructed. There is no one single childhood |
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Factors that influence childhood |
Family relationship Gender Religion Social class |
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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 |
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Age patriarchy |
Gittens 1998- clear inequalities between adults and children |
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Middle class childhood |
Cultural capital through sports and artistic activities |
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Working class childhood |
Providing basic needs eg food and safety Natural growth of |
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New right and childhood |
Postman 1994- childhood is disappearing because tv and media is making childhood shorter |
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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 |