Childhood Flashcards
List some reasons for change in childrens position?
Laws
Compulsory school
Child rights
Smaller family size
Industrialisation
List some things that argue childhood is not getting better. (Conflict view)
Inequalities between child and adults
Control kids space
Control kids time
Age patriarchy
Who says ‘age patriarchy’
Gittens
Wagg
Childhood is socially constructed
Pilcher
- Most important feature of childhood is seperatedness
- golden age of childhood
Malinowski
Adults of the Trobriand Islands took an attitude of tolerance and interest into childhoods sexual activities
Shows how childhood differs culturally
When was compulsary schooling introduced
1880
When was the childrens act
1989
Punch
In Bolivia kids work at 5 years old.
Globalisation of western childhood
Charities spread western childhood telling other cultures they’re wrong
Aries
Childhood didn’t exist in the middle ages, looked at paintaings and saw no difference between kids and adults, called them mini adults as they wear same stuff.
Shorter
High death rate meant it was common for kids to have the name of a dead sibling or just be called ‘it’ - parents were more neglectful of kids because of it
Pollack
Better to say that childhood had a different notion, not that it didn’t exist.
Postman
Childhood disappearing because of:
- lack of unsupervised game time
- same laws/crimes
- same clothes
Also says the childhood is come about and going due to the rise and fall of print culture which caused a hierarchy of information
Information hierarchy
Adults could read and kids couldn’t, creating a hierarchy in the era of print culture.
TV now blurs this and makes kids understand everything too.
Jenks
Childhood is changing due to postmodern society, as PM society causes instability, parents look to their kids for stability, as they will always be their child it is one of few fixed things.
Childhood is now a source of parents identity and stability rather than childhood being to prepare kids for society. Childhood however is still separate due to laws.
Counter for Jenks
Jenks generalises, we don’t know this is changed for all family types, cultures and genders.
Statistic for child centred family
1860, woman had 5.7 births on avg, in 2014 women had 1.8
Aries and Shorter
Children are valued and protected
Counter for MOP view
Sue palmer - toxic childhood
Palmer
Toxic childhood - TV/media has meant kids have been damaged.
Conflict view of childhood
says MoP ignores
- inequalities between kids (gender, ethnicity and class)
- Inequalities between kids and adults
Forms of control
- neglect (childline has 20k calls a year)
- control space
- control time
- control bodies
- control access to resources
Gittens
Age Patriachry - adults have power and kids have none.
