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Childhood Flashcards

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Evidence supporting childhood is a social construction

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Differing responsibilities, treatment, status

View of nature of childhood

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Reasons for more child-centred society

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Welfare support
Shorter working week
Growing parental fears
Smaller families
Childrens consumer market
Legal rights
Compulsory education
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Inequalities and problems over children

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Legal controls
Unhappy children
Child abuse
Sibling abuse

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Social construction

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Important characteristics of something, such as statistics, health, childhood, old age or what is regarded as deviance- are created and influenced by attitudes, interpretations of members of society.

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Legal controls over children

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  • Legal age to get married is 18
  • Voting age 18
  • Sex- 16
  • Film certificates
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