Childhood

Question 1

Aries

Answer 1

• in the pre industrial era children are seen as mini adults
• parents had little emotional attachment to their children. They were wet nursed, left alone, harshly disciplined and there were low levels of grief if they died

Question 2

Stone (supporting Aries)

Answer 2

• family becomes a unit of consumption rather than production

Question 3

Hall (supporting Aries)

Answer 3

In the 18th and 19th centuries wives are removed from the workforce and become revolved around home life

Question 4

Evaluation of Aries

Answer 4

Aries romanticises the lives of children in pre-industrial times. He ignores significant problems of abuse and neglect.

Question 5

Lee and the crisis in adulthood

Answer 5

• 29% of men and 18% of women live with their parents in their 20s
• the average age people but a house has increased by five years

Question 6

Postman and the ‘disappearance of childhood’

Answer 6

• There can be no such thing as childhood because of childhood is a state of innocence. This is difficult under the influence of mass media.
• loss of permanence to traditional markers of adulthood

Question 7

Criticisms of postman

Answer 7

• value laden bias- he sees the changes as negative