//Childhood

Question 1

Identify three features of childhood in our society.

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Question 2

Give three examples of how children are treated differently in different societies.

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Question 3

Explain what is meant by ‘the globalisation of western childhood’.

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Question 4

Give two ways in which children were seen to be the same as adults in the Middle Ages.

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Question 5

How were parental attitudes to children different in the Middle Ages?

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Question 6

Give three reasons for the emergence of the modern notion of childhood.

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Question 7

State on criticism of Aries work.

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Question 8

How have laws changed the position of childhood?

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Question 9

How have other social changes changed the position of childhood?

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Question 10

State three ways in which Postman argues that childhood is disappearing.

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Question 11

According to Postman, what is the main reason for the disappearance of childhood?

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Question 12

Outline how in Postman’s view the information hierarchy has been destroyed.

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Question 13

Give one criticism of Postman’s view.

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Question 14

According to Jenks, what is the difference between childhood in modernity and postmodernity?

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Question 15

How does Jenks see parents’ relationships with their children in postmodern society?

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Question 16

Give two criticisms of Jenks’ work.

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Question 17

Give three ways in which children’s lives have improved according to the march of progress view.

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Question 18

According to Palmer, what are the causes of ‘toxic childhood’?

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Question 19

Give three examples of childhood health problems that are increasing.

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Question 20

Give two criticisms that the conflict view makes of the march of progress view.

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Question 21

Give examples of how gender is an inequality to children.

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Question 22

Give examples of how ethnicity is an inequality to children.

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Question 23

Give examples of how social class is an inequality to children.

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Question 24

How do adults use neglect and abuse to control children?

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Question 25

How do adults control a child’s space?

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Question 26

How do adults control a child’s time?

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Question 27

How do adults control a child’s body?

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Question 28

How do adults control a child’s access to resources?

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Question 29

Define age patriarchy.

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Question 30

How might children resist the status of child?

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Question 31

Give two criticisms of the child liberationist view.

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Question 32

What is meant by the idea that children are mere ‘socialisation projects’?

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Question 33

How are children seen by the ‘new sociology of childhood’?

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Question 34

What methods are most appropriate for studying a child’s point of view? Give reasons for your answer.

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