Key studies on childhood Flashcards
1
Q
What does Wagg suggest?
A
childhood is… what members of particular societies at particular times say it is.
2
Q
Who said that in the pre industrial society childhood did not exist?
A
Aries
3
Q
What does firestone suggest about childhood
A
that not allowing them to enter paid work just makes them dependant on their parents.
4
Q
The idea of an age patriarchy is presented by which type of sociologist and what is his name?
A
Giddens
a child liberationist
5
Q
Palmer found that childhood had become?
A
Toxic
6
Q
what did postman say about childhood?
A
that it is disappearing at a dazzling speed.
7
Q
Who presented the idea of an adultist point of view
A
Mayall- society and childhood should be studied through the children not their parents
