HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Juvenile Court, Social Control, Protestantism

• School: York University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 1080
• Professor: Molly Ladd- Taylor

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~ hist 1080 growing up in north america ~ Childhood as a construction: construction of childhood innocence. Are these reformists humanitarian or social control: baby saving, playgrounds. Time of massive immigration from southern and eastern europe. Large numbers of children visible in industry and on city streets. Unhealthy working and living conditions and child poverty: a lot of reformers were worried about these factors, humanitarian. Immigration led to english protestant fear of race suicide": there was a declining birth rate among educated whites in the us. By 1920s, 20 % of immigrants came from places other than britain and england. New theories of child psychology: children are different from adults; they go through set developmental stages, take children seriously as worthy of study, stanley hall ( 1884 1924) Psychologist, and founder of child study movement. His belief was that: all children pass through developmental stages, according to theory of recapitulation".