CHYS 2P38 Lecture Notes - Social Forces, Economic Globalization, Best Interests

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Introduction: we need to think about childhood, adolescence in various contexts. Is a category that is too specific and not specific enough. Some aspects of youth and childhood are universal. Cannot say all children have the same experience of . You have to think about geography, race, class, gender, etc: wells (2009) argues childhood is socially constructed" (p. 2). We often think gender for example is socially constructed (there is no inherit, natural, or pre-existing gender of masculinity or femininity) Wells is saying that children"s lives are not universally understood: meaning: social forces shape children"s lives. Social forces can shape experiences, but everyone has universal features. These are universal features but they speak to a universal experience: example: infants are highly dependent on adults as are toddlers, and young children. Infants can do very little without an adult. So that would be a feature but not linked to the experience.

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