SOCIOL 3GG3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psychosexual Development, Thumb Sucking, Social Issue

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 3GG3
• Professor: Shaw

Document Summary

Childhood sexuality/masturbation firmly est as a social evil. Not simply pathology of inds but also of society. Expression of led to insanity, criminality, decadence, death. New moral climate emerging age of restraint. Problematic in a time period where it was all about consumption. Respectability and prudery become hallmarks of this era. Rising powerful middle classes bearers of this new morality. Aim to save the child and society from chaos and decline. Labour laws emerge around exploitation of child labourers. Schooling becomes compulsory & universal public education. Different edu for genders: modern sport & gymnastics part of effort to eradicate. Est/ing normative behaviours of children concern of the state. Results in pedagogization of childrens sexuality foucault. Needed to be monitored & managed by parents, teachers, doctors, experts (rise around how to properly rear children) Complete about face childrens sexuality regarded as natural. Including infantile sexuality children have sexual urges. Increased recognition among sexologists, children were sexual beings.