SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Developmental Psychology, Helicopter Parent, Concerted Cultivation
30 Mar 2016
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Childhood has a biological underpinning, but sociologists are interested in how childhood and childrearing are socially constructed. Ideas about children vary by ime and place. Ideas about how children should be raised. Ideas about the role of mothers, fathers, educaional insituions in the lives of children. Ideas about what we can expect of children, the inherent nature" of children, the place of children in larger society. Childhood has become prolonged in our more recent history. By mid to late 1900s, the emphasis shited to a concern over children"s emoional well-being. Intensive mothering, concerted culivaion, helicopter parent take place within broader context, including:
