CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tabula Rasa, Century Child, Pampers
7 Mar 2017
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Not that innocent: historical and modern day conceptualizations of childhood. [home alone: 10] not a law, but considered a norm applies to everything in brackets. Work: 14: still can"t do heavy lifting, or operate machinery, can"t work during school hours, -so, still exceptions. Age of majority: 18: legally, in ontario. Smoke: 19: all this is what constitutes childhood in the eyes of the law. What is the same: all are exploring, all are close with their mothers, being cared for by adults, but in very different ways, all are happy and healthy all are loved and well-cared for. What is different: different housing urban/rural, socio-economic status, cleanliness standards of cleanliness, acceptability of dangerous activities/risk/acceptable behaviour. Social creation: subject to redefinition , (albanese, p. 2, constantly being redefined and reshaped, shifts across time and space, babies documentary, for e. g. changing, fluid, not fixed or set, not universal.
