SOCI 3045 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Intellectual History, Social Forces, Tabula Rasa
8 Jun 2017
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Childhood is a social construct and a social institution: which isn"t fixated. Examples: schools, they change to accommodate the various diversity: family, religion, economic and political institutions, governs behaviour and expectations marked by defined sets of norms. The authors consider childhood as a social institutions. They proposed that immaturity in children is a given fact, biologically, however, it is socially constructed as they are raised. Views of childhood: seemingly innocuous yet invokes rich intellectual history. Intellectual history of the new social study of childhood: developmental psychological models, connects biological and social development in pre-determined stages towards adulthood a. i. Don"t worry, it"s just a phase they are going through: an approach to childhood predicated on rationally (adulthood), naturalness (simplicity to complexity) and universality, marked by innocence and vulnerability c. i. Carefree, play, their young children and prone to play c. ii. The child represents children: socialization models draw on psychological models a.
