FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tabula Rasa, Psychosexual Development, John Bowlby

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Sandra Pericak

Document Summary

Chapter 7: parent-child relationships: at first, children could be employed in industry to the benefit of the parents. So up until the mid-1800"s, children were economic assets: this, however, shifted to the children because economic liabilities because of 2 reasons, child protection legislation, mandatory schooling. He says that if biological human nature contains no inherent behaviour (feedings, standing, walking) that emerges independently from socialization, then individuals are dependent on socialization (nurturance) for every essence of being human. + family background + (genes x family background) Psychoanalytic theories: freud"s psychosexual theory of development popularized the idea of invariant developmental stages. Psychosexual development was driven by the libido or sexual urges: these urges may focus on different objects as a child matures toward the final stage of focusing on the opposite sex. Psychological theories: piaget constructed one of the most influential theories of child development. Sociological theories: focused on the parent-child dyad, the family, or larger social units of analysis, g. h.