CHYS 3P30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Worker Bee, Relative Deprivation, The Takeaway
6 Nov 2017
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Adults" control of children"s activities serve as occasions of a trial of childhood. When adults control children"s activities, children may be denied pleasurable or meaningful activities, urged to undesired ones, and also deprived of resources for their presentation of self. Relative deprivation- deprivation in relation to what others have or do. Retrospective relative deprivation- when children see younger siblings allowed what they were denied. Restricted access to television (or other media) Activities interrupted- not only being denied, but also having a desired activity cut short". Adults" choreography of children"s activities may serve as a source of many trials of childhood. It may also explain short attention span", acting out, fluctuations in performance across activities, strategies of avoidance. By recognizing children"s trials, adults gain greater understanding of and sympathy for the fact of children"s distress even when they dispute the reasons for it.
