History

Question 1

According to the Canadian census dictionary who does children refer to

Answer 1

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

Question 2

According to the criminal code, children under what age cannot legally consent to sexual activity

Answer 2

14

Question 3

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

Answer 3

14-17

Question 4

According to immigration Canada’s website, parents have a legal duty to provide the necessities of life until what age

Answer 4

16

Question 5

What jurisdiction to child and family services fall under

Answer 5

Provincial

Question 6

What is phillipe Aries major work and when was it published

Answer 6

Centuries of childhood, and the 1960’s

Question 7

Until what time period did childhood fail to be recognized as a distinct period in the life course according to Aries

Answer 7

Medieval times

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Absence, marginalization, and adult like depictions

Question 9

What was an interesting outcome of the medieval worlds indifference toward childhood

Answer 9

Latitude, less monitoring and more autonomy

Question 10

According to Aries in what century did childhood begin and how can its progress be traced

Answer 10

The thirteenth century and it can be traced in the art of the fifteenth and sixteenth century

Question 11

What three major points did Locke contribute to childhood

Answer 11

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

Question 12

According to Locke what formed a child’s ability to reason and fully function

Answer 12

Education

Question 13

According to Rousseau are children born good or bad

Answer 13

Good. Childhood is a time of innocence and honesty

Question 14

Why is the study of children/child/childhood a social construct

Answer 14

It is a social creation subject to redefinition by the society or culture

Question 15

What was Rousseau’s view on education

Answer 15

He believed that children should not engage in education because childhood should be a care free time.

Question 16

How were children viewed in hunter gatherer societies?

Answer 16

The were considered a burden as they depended heavily on the group

Question 17

How were children viewed in agricultural societies?

Answer 17

They were considered to be essential to the labour force

Question 18

What did Colon and Colon argue

Answer 18

That childhood did not come about during the renascence like Aries suggested. There were laws protecting children in hammurabi’s code.

Question 19

Children of what age can enrol in Canada’s sea army or Air Cadets

Answer 19

12-18

Question 20

In what countries has sociology made a shift to study children in and of themselves

Answer 20

UK, Australia, Germany, and Scandinavia