History Flashcards
According to the Canadian census dictionary who does children refer to
Offspring of any age residing with their parents (or grandparents) with a qualification: the offsprings child or spouse cannot be living in the parental home
According to the criminal code, children under what age cannot legally consent to sexual activity
14
Between what ages can a person not legally consent to sexual activity with a person in a position of trust or authority or with whom the young person is in a relationship of dependency
14-17
According to immigration Canada’s website, parents have a legal duty to provide the necessities of life until what age
16
What jurisdiction to child and family services fall under
Provincial
What is phillipe Aries major work and when was it published
Centuries of childhood, and the 1960’s
Until what time period did childhood fail to be recognized as a distinct period in the life course according to Aries
Medieval times
What evidence does Aries give to prove that adults in the tenth and eleventh century Europe did not devote time or attention to their children
Absence, marginalization, and adult like depictions
What was an interesting outcome of the medieval worlds indifference toward childhood
Latitude, less monitoring and more autonomy
According to Aries in what century did childhood begin and how can its progress be traced
The thirteenth century and it can be traced in the art of the fifteenth and sixteenth century
What three major points did Locke contribute to childhood
1) child centred education
2) parents are responsible for the creation of the citizen/adult as they are born with a blank slate
3) children should not be driven to conformity and good behaviour by being beaten or coerced
According to Locke what formed a child’s ability to reason and fully function
Education
According to Rousseau are children born good or bad
Good. Childhood is a time of innocence and honesty
Why is the study of children/child/childhood a social construct
It is a social creation subject to redefinition by the society or culture
What was Rousseau’s view on education
He believed that children should not engage in education because childhood should be a care free time.
How were children viewed in hunter gatherer societies?
The were considered a burden as they depended heavily on the group
How were children viewed in agricultural societies?
They were considered to be essential to the labour force
What did Colon and Colon argue
That childhood did not come about during the renascence like Aries suggested. There were laws protecting children in hammurabi’s code.
Children of what age can enrol in Canada’s sea army or Air Cadets
12-18
In what countries has sociology made a shift to study children in and of themselves
UK, Australia, Germany, and Scandinavia
