CYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Deinstitutionalisation, Intellectual Disability, Symbolic Interactionism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Child and Youth Care
• Course: CYC 101
• Professor: Hangama Ahmadzai

Document Summary

Chapter 2- historical perspectives on childhood and professional caregiving. Listen to the voices as a way of working with their concerns and as a forum for understanding experience within the services and systems that affect them. The profession, occupation and craft develop from modern european and north america societies. So this does not mean that young people around the world are the same as young people here. Their experiences and lifestyle are going to be very different and hence it is emphasized that the text is from a north american concept. Purposed by historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and cultural psychologists. It means that members of society have collectively define (or constructed) the meaning of childhood. All societies have childhood" but how it"s understood and how children are treated is based on socioeconomic class, race, gender, religion, etc. Viewing that childhood as a social construction implies that biological immaturity is only meaningful within the culture of a particular society.