SOCI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sigmund Freud, Parenting, Oedipus Complex
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Issues: how do families experience birth and raising children, how do families experience (involuntary) Fwch and fw/och: inimacy + what counts as family. Theories on childhood socializaion: learning/behavourist, psychoanalyic, child development, symbolic interacionist, gender role socializaion. What children experience, need and what is expected of them. Concept of childhood varies by culture and historical era: e. g philippe aries(1962) centuries of childhood. Process by which a society passes on its behavior paterns, aitudes, values and knowledge to the next generaion. (mitchell, p. 163) Siblings, peer group, educaional system, religion, mass media. Cost of raising a child has increased and shited to childcare, educaion, and health: High degree of media exposure: television, music, computer, video games. Children raised in same family or diferent historical locaions can have diferent experiences/outcomes: e. g tweens desiring ipods and cellphones or grandchildren teaching grandparents to use facebook. Learning/behaviourist frame of reference: assumes the same concepts and principles that apply to animas aply to humans, classical condiioning.