Childhood Flashcards

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What happened to the view of children after industrialisation?

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In the middle of the 19th century campaigners became concerned for children and children were excluded from mines + factories and education was made compulsory in 1880

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What was the view of children in the 20th century?

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The modem notion of children had been constructed and had three main characteristics

1) children were regarded as being fundamentally different from adults - seen as both psychically and mentally immature
2) adulthood and childhood seen as opposites
3) different worlds

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What are some examples of policies that have been passed since 1945 aimed at protecting the rights of chidren?

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-Social services
-Child benefits
-reducing child poverty
The 2004 children act-focused on well being of children
The collation government 2010-focused on Education

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What’s the march of progress view towards children?

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  • Status of children has steadily improved over the last century
  • family has become much more child centred
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What’s the conflict view towards childhood?

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Don’t agree that children’s lives have improved for two reasons:

1) inequalities among children e.g social class’ & less developed counties - some children still experience daily risk of death due to work
- experiences of childhood may differ due to gender

2)inequalities among children and adultse.g control of what children wear,where they go,routines,abuse

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What’s the functionalist/New Right View on childhood?

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  • childhood is under threat from modern trends such as divorce and homosexuality
  • successful child rearing requires two parents of the opposite sex
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What does postman argue is happening to childhood?

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-it’s disappearing due to the disappearance of the difference in clothes and access to adult content online and the TV

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What’s the postmodernist theory of childhood?

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Jencks argues that wives and husbands have become disposable but children haven’t,intensifying the feel to protect children

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What was life like for children in pre industrial western society?

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Philipe Aries-What we experience today as childhood is a recent social invention

  • children were ‘little adults’ experiencing the same punishments,work and activities as adults
  • Children were regarded as a form of ‘cheap labour’ and the high infant mortality rate means parents kept mourning to a minimum
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what were children seen as in pre industrial society?

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Aries explains that childhood today is a recent social invention and children used to be regarded as

  • ‘little adults’ who took part in the same work and play activities as adults
  • toys and games didn’t exist for children
  • they were regarded as economic assets rather than a symbol of peoples love
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what did the cogitation policy involve?

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  • free school
  • further move towards academies
  • increased parental choice
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