102048 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Critical Role, Social Forces, Social Constructivism
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Social construction: childhood is understood as a social construction. If incomplete allows children to be dominated as not significant in their own right. " childre(cid:374) (cid:374)egotiate, share a(cid:374)d (cid:272)reate (cid:272)ulture (cid:449)ith adults a(cid:374)d (cid:449)ith ea(cid:272)h other" corsaro (2005) p. 18: othering a way of distancing and stigmatizing those who are deemed to be "different" from a majority, or powerful group. Structure: systems of social relationships (mode of power, production, domination, ideology, belief systems, agency, creative activity, proposes negotiation and interaction between individual actors. "whatever children do, they do it within frameworks of childhood that have primarily been constructed and reconstructed by the larger societal forces - the macrostructures" - jens qvortrup. "every act which contributes to the production of a structure is also an act of reproduction, and as such may initiate change by altering the structure at the same time as it reproduces it" - giddens (1979) Societal forces: structural approach views childhood as integrated into society.
