Childhood Flashcards
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Cultural differences in childhood
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Benedict: childhood different in non industrial societies with one of the maj. differences being children taking responsibility at an earlier age
Holmes: studied childhood in Samoa and found children were never seen as “too young”
2
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Bolivia Case Study
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-Punch: studied childhood in Bolivia and found children as young as 5 expected to take responsibility
- further research found children worked for as low as $14 a day as they needed to provide for their families
3
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Conventional approach
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- Highlights importance of parents to childhood
- critical of the effects modern world has on childhood (postman: tv and media negatively affects children)
- Brooks: parents have become over obsessed with safety (coddling)
- Palmer: toxic childhood - innocence of children polluted by media
4
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Social Action Theory
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Criticises conventional approaches and argues children aren’t blank slates and have just as much impact on parents too (reciprocal determinism: Morrow)
