Childhood Flashcards
Cunningham
Child - centred - society has 3 major features
Childhood(which legally is up until you are 18)
Social worlds
Certain rights - happy and stress free
Chapman
19th century when children became recognised as a transitional state
What us child poverty
Child growing up in poverty
Ways the state supports childhood
NHS, shapes and supports socialisation in school, police families are thought to be at risk, exclude children from activities up until 18, laws and punishments for those who don’t treat children properly, pays child benefit and child tax credit to parents, 1991 child support act protects children’s welfare in the event of a divorce, Coalition Government of 2010-15 aim to reduce poverty
Is childhood a fixed experience
No it’s a universal relative one
Benedict
Children in non industrial societies are treated differently to in western communities
In blovia expected to work at home from 5
Aries
Today children are valued more and treated better
Infant mortality rate 1990-2016
154/1000 - 4/1000
Palmer
Rapid technelogical + cultural changes are damaging children’s growth
Junk food and video games, leading to more depression and obesity
Postman - postmodernity
Childhood is disappearing
Jenks on postman
Not disappearing but changing as in postmodern society, divorce is more common which makes relationship with children even more important
What is childhood seen as
Golden age
Who feels more loyalty to parents
Muslim, hindu and sikhs feel a stronger sense of obligation and duty to their parents and not bringing shame to their family
Ghuman multiculturalism
Asian parents have a larger generational conflict on topics such as fashion, dating and marriage, often resolved through compromise
New right
Primary socialisation is vital, loving parents, mum stays at home to look after the kid
Postman argument for childhood loss
Impact of television means less secrets are held for young children
Postman arguemnet for childhood disappearing
Social blurring, less distinction between adults and children. Video games, fashion music. Traditional features also dying as a result of more economic dependence on parents
Brooks criticism of postman
Parents are in fact too focused on keeping their child safe and innocent in a world with so much technology
Femenism
Walter argues in the 1990s, there was a huge celebration for women sexuality and bodies which have now trickled over to young women now, sexualising themselves with shows such as the Kardashian’s.
Given tasks at childhood from parents
Dad asks son to help fix or move
Mum asks daughter to help cook
Giddens post modernism
Parents now have to be answerable to their kids and to offer tyem respect in order to be respected
