Childhood

Question 1

Toxic childhood palmer (2010)

Answer 1

Rapid technological and cultural changes in the last 25 year have damaged childrens physical emotional and intellectual development

This is the result of intensive marketing to children,parents working long hours,junk food computer games and testing in education

Question 2

Cultures

Answer 2

Differences in childhood between societes

Question 3

Places

Answer 3

Differences in childhood in a society

Question 4

Overtime

Answer 4

Differences in childhood

Question 5

Pilcher (1995)

Answer 5

Childhood is a seperatness distinct life stage

Question 6

Social construct of childhood

Answer 6

Shaped by society and culture

Biological difference between children and adults

Question 7

Children and agency

Answer 7

A structure which evaluates
Capacity of individuals
Capactity of children
Views translate into actions such as making decisions influencing change and providing evidence

Question 8

Child rights

Answer 8

Parents had rights over their children
Late 19thand early 20th century charities began to support children
Legislated rules to protect children
Restricting child labour

Question 9

Inequality and the university of childhood

Answer 9

Structure which effects a childs experience
A childs strt in life has lasting impacts
Children in poverty are at a large disadvantage

Question 10

Theory of identity

Answer 10

Personal and social identities
Children absorb what is around them
Social development

Question 11

School and work

Answer 11

Key right to go to school
Goal of global education
Expectation of childhood
School now seen as a need

Question 12

Functionalists

Answer 12

Believe that society is based on a value consensus( a set of shared norms and values) in which society socialises its members.
They regard society to be made up of sub systems that depend on each like the human body and human organs

Question 13

George Peter Murdock 1949

“The family performs four essential functions to meet the needs of society and its members”

Answer 13

Stable satisfaction of the sex drive preventing the social disruption caused by a sexual free for all e.g STDS and teen pregnancies

Reproduction of the next generation to ensure society continues

Socialisation of the young into societies shared norms and values

Meeting its members economic needs such as food and shelter so the state doesn’t have to pay

Question 14

Criticisms of Murdock

Answer 14

Murdock recognises that other institutions could perform these functions but argues that the nuclear family is universal becuase of its sheer practicality in performing the four essential functions

Question 15

Talcott Parsons functional fit theory

Answer 15

The nuclear family of just parents and dependant children

The extended family of three generations living under the same roof

Question 16

Symmetrical Family

Answer 16

The symmetrical family is where a family divides all responsibilities equally between partners. This was created and theorised by Willmott and Young (1970) as one of the phases the modern family has shifted into. For example; men and women will share the household responsibilities equally to ensure the ‘triple shift’ is not conducted by one person.

Question 17

Aries

Answer 17

More child centred