Conflict view (childhood)

Question 1

Conflict view

Answer 1

Okay that society is based on conflict between different social groups such as social classes or genders in this conflict some groups have more power status or wealth and others
Conflict sociologist see the relationship between groups is one of domination insubordination in which the dominant group act as the oppressors
Conflict sociologists argue that march of progress is based on false and idealised images that ignore important inequalities

Question 2

Inequalities among children

Answer 2

Different nationalities experience different childhoods
Hillman 1993 boys are more likely to be allowed to cross the cycle roads use buses and go after dark unaccompanied where is girls do more domestic labour
Poor mothers are more likely to have low-birth-weight babies which in turn is linked to delayed physical and intellectual development
Children of unskilled manual workers are over three times more likely To suffer from hyperactivity and four times more like you to experience conduct disorders
Children born into poor families are also more likely to die in infancy of childhood to suffer long-standing illness or to be shorter in height to fall behind in school and to be placed on the child protection register

Question 3

Inequalities between children and adults

Answer 3

Major inequalities of power between children and adults
Firestone and holt argue that many of the things that March of progress see and care about as protection are actually new forms of oppression and control
Firestone argues that protection for paid work is not a benefit to children better form than a quality these critics see the need to 3 children from adult control and so their view is described as child liberationism