CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Fact, Biopower, Positivism
16 Jan 2017
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(cid:862)i(cid:374) (cid:373)edie(cid:448)al so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) the idea of (cid:272)hildhood did (cid:374)ot e(cid:454)ist; this is (cid:374)ot to suggest that children were neglected, forsaken or despised. Historical analysis of childhood is limited by a lack of evidence. Historical representations often say more about the present than the past. Demause (1974) argued that medieval childhood was a nightmare: believed children were abused by families, were not loved and cared for. Linda pollock (1983) uses documents to show that children were not routinely abused: children were cared for and were shown affection. Documents say little about peasant childhood, nothing about different cultural or racial childhoods. Historical accounts of non-european childhoods tend to be of colonial childhoods. By 1400, global networks emerged around the trade in gold, spices, slaves. Ethno-historical accounts of non-european societies suggested that the young were not values sentimentally or economically according to their capacity.
