//Childhood Flashcards
Identify three features of childhood in our society.
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Give three examples of how children are treated differently in different societies.
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Explain what is meant by ‘the globalisation of western childhood’.
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Give two ways in which children were seen to be the same as adults in the Middle Ages.
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How were parental attitudes to children different in the Middle Ages?
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Give three reasons for the emergence of the modern notion of childhood.
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State on criticism of Aries work.
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How have laws changed the position of childhood?
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How have other social changes changed the position of childhood?
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State three ways in which Postman argues that childhood is disappearing.
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According to Postman, what is the main reason for the disappearance of childhood?
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Outline how in Postman’s view the information hierarchy has been destroyed.
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Give one criticism of Postman’s view.
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According to Jenks, what is the difference between childhood in modernity and postmodernity?
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How does Jenks see parents’ relationships with their children in postmodern society?
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Give two criticisms of Jenks’ work.
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Give three ways in which children’s lives have improved according to the march of progress view.
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According to Palmer, what are the causes of ‘toxic childhood’?
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Give three examples of childhood health problems that are increasing.
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Give two criticisms that the conflict view makes of the march of progress view.
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Give examples of how gender is an inequality to children.
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Give examples of how ethnicity is an inequality to children.
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Give examples of how social class is an inequality to children.
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How do adults use neglect and abuse to control children?
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How do adults control a child’s space?
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How do adults control a child’s time?
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How do adults control a child’s body?
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How do adults control a child’s access to resources?
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Define age patriarchy.
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How might children resist the status of child?
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Give two criticisms of the child liberationist view.
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What is meant by the idea that children are mere ‘socialisation projects’?
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How are children seen by the ‘new sociology of childhood’?
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What methods are most appropriate for studying a child’s point of view? Give reasons for your answer.
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