PAPER 2 (Families - childhood THEORIES) Flashcards
Pilcher
Says the most important feature of childhood is that it is seen as separate from adulthood.
Shorter
Argues that high death rates amongst children encouraged indifference and neglect towards children until they were older.
Wagg
Childhood is socially constructed. There is no single universal childhood.
Rotherham
1,400 girls in Rotherham were sexually exploited.
The girls in Rotherham were slut shamed by police and not taken seriously.
Neil Postman
The difference between childhood and adulthood is disappearing.
Punch
Rural Bolivian children have to work from the age of 5.
Sue Palmer
‘Toxic Childhood’ - New technology is causing childhood experiences to be polluted, leading to toxic childhood syndrome.
Ariès
Now is the best time to be a child, and in medieval times childhood did not exist.
De Mause
The further back in history one goes, the lower the level of childcare. More likely to be killed, abandoned, beaten and sexually abused.
Bonke
Found girls do more domestic labour.
Brannen
Found that Asian parents were more strict towards their daughters than sons.
Firestone
Child liberationist - free children from adult control
Cunningham
Children’s ‘habitat’ has shrunk - cant go far.
Gittins ‘age patriarchy’
Says its ‘rule by the father’, fathers oppress and control children.
Hockey and James
Children don’t like being young. Children act up or down which shows they don’t want to be the age they are.
