Childhood Flashcards
Childhood is often said to be a ___ ___, defined by the ___ and interpretation a culture attaches to it.
Social
Construction
Value
Archard (1993) said childhood is based on notions of ___ from adulthood.
Separateness
____ is emerging today.
Childcentredness
Brigette and Peter Berger (1983) note that since ___ ___ rates decreased, children have become more important.
Infant
Mortality
Aries (1973) said the idea of children being ___ is a recent ___ creation.
Vulnerable
Cultural
Postman (1985) says childhood is ___ in modern society.
Disappearing
Many ___ are now aimed at children.
Children
Before ___, children contributed to the family and now they ___ on it.
Capitalism
Depend
Aries (1973) says childhood is a recent phenomenon due to the ___ of ___ schooling and the ___ of child labour.
Length
Compulsory
Illegality
Very few children leave school at ___ to work.
16
___ and ___ are now majority experiences.
FE
HE
In the ___ ___, childhood did not exist.
Middle
Ages
Children in pre-industrial times worked on the ___ with their parents and weren’t treated ___ to adults.
Land
Differently
Children in industrial times were employed in ___ and as ___ ___.
Factories
Chimney
Sweeps
Children today are ___ by laws, have to go to ___ and have ___ food and drink made for them.
Protected
School
Special
Childhood can be a negative experience due to ___ abuse, ___ and increased ___.
Child
Bullying
Divorce
Parents now ___ more in children.
Invest
The ___ protects children.
State
Decline in the ___ ___ rate has lead to more love and care for ___.
Infant
Mortality
Children
From ___, all children had to attend school.
1880
Parents now have more ___ time thanks to less ___ work schedules.
Leisure
Strenuous
___ restrictions apply to separate children and adults.
Age
___ media has an impact on children.
Mass
Children in simpler societies are given more ___ at an earlier age, less ___ and viewed differently in terms of ___ behaviour.
Responsibility
Obedient
Sexual
Over ___% of children are in absolute poverty.
33
Children in the developing world are more at risk of ___ ___.
Infectious
Diseases
More than ___ children are soldiers.
500,000
The ___ of ___ view supports the idea that the lives of most children have improved.
March
Progress
The conflict view points out that ___ between children still exist and inequalities between ___ and ___ exist.
Inequalities
Children
Adults
Postman (1994) says childhood is ___ as children grow up too ___.
Dying
Fast
Lee (2001) said children are ___ and ___.
Unstable
Incomplete
Since ___, children’s views are listened to more.
1989
Rogers (2001) identified two images of childhood, the ___ and wholesome child and the wicked and ___ child.
Innocent
Sinful
___ and the ___ ___ take a conventional view of childhood.
Functionalists
New Right
Palmer (2006) says children are experiencing a ___ childhood with ___ food, ___ games, intensive ___ and a growing emphasis on testing in ___.
Toxic Junk Computer Monitoring Education
Opie (1993) says childhood is not ___.
Disappearing
