CHST 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tooth Fairy, Ethnography, Geoffrey Pearson

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Child Studies
• Course: CHST 1002
• Professor: Monica Patterson

Document Summary

Historian geofrey pearson on the history of moral panics: every 20 years centering on youth. Anxiety of children crisis/ video game consumpion/ Context: of various sources and look at the speciic topic of the social context. Contemporary: meaning of childhood are shaped by the links between the past and the present. Contemporary accounts: of risk and crisis draw upon earlier conceptualizaions of childhood, paricularly romanic ideals. Epistemology: the study of knowledge; a branch of philosophy that invesigates the origin, nature the methods and the limits of human knowledge. : the study of the nature and grounds of knowledge, especially with reference to its limits and validity. Example) the tooth that is represented diferently to an individuals stage in life. (the tooth fairy or having a root canal or believing that a demon is living in your tooth. ) Classical (ancient greece and rome: 8th 7th c bc 600 ad) Schools, hospitals, government agencies, youth associaions, private chariies, churches, etc.