CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Positivism, Internment Of Japanese Americans
7 Mar 2016
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Chys 2p38 lecture 1 jan 5th 2016. Office hours: tues & fri 1-3pm: lecture slides and course readings available on sakai, no seminar this week, ta names and emails are on the lecture slides. Childhood: demause (1974) argued that medieval childhood was a nightmare. Video showing the restoration of childhood in the developing world: wells, in recognizing the flaws in aries" argument, asserts that childhood as a distinct phase in the life cycle is universal. Prout and james constructing and reconstructing childhood (1990) and theorizing. This new paradigm as a significant shift from what came before positivistic sociology and psychology that focused more on what they would (or would not) become, rather than what they were. A central argument was that children and youth are social agents: karl mannheim"s conception of generation as a social structure that shapes cultural progress. Different generations grow up in different circumstances.
