Modern western notion of childhood

Question 1

What did Jane Pilcher say?

Answer 1

Most important feature of childhood is separatness (separate lifestyle and status”
Life stage

Question 2

What’s the modern western notion of childhood

Answer 2

Children fundamentally different from adults
Physically and psychologically immature
Lack skills and experience

Question 3

How is differentness of nature emphasised?

Answer 3

Different laws for adults and children, different clothes and entertainment

Question 4

Whats the golden age of innocence?

Answer 4

Seen as vulnerable and kept quarantined from danger - lives in sphere of fmaly and school

Question 5

What did Stephen Wagg say?

Answer 5

Socially constructed not universal

Question 6

What did Samantha Punch say?

Answer 6

Children in Bolivia, 5 years old, take work responsibilities in the home and local community without hesitation

Question 7

Whatdid Holmes say?

Answer 7

Children in Samoa, no concept of ‘too young’, children use dangerous tools and carry heavy loads, if children think they can do it, parents let them

Question 8

What did Firth say

Answer 8

Children in the Tikopia of the Western Pacific, do not automatically do as adults are told, the child decides whether to listen to elders

Question 9

What did Malinowski

Answer 9

Adults of the Tobriand Islanders of the South-West Pacific, do not view the sexual activities of young people and children with disdain, but tolerate their experimentation