A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Judy Blume, The New England Primer, The Hunger Games
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Shifting/developing over time: from diminutive, incomplete pre-adult to a recognizable + respected individuality. Varying characteristic: foci e. g. on intellectual or physical development, consequences for social recognition/status + conceptualisation. In some ways diminutive, incomplete pre-adult", but also some conceptions of the life course existed. From mid-18th century (incl. impact of enlightenment ideals): emerging more individual concept of a child, earlier: definition in relation to a complete" adult in the sense of being. Consequences for public debate: emergence of new didactic concepts (e. g. rousseau), focus on other aspects than before changing social role. Intensification of definitions of child and childhood, new visions of a chid + new roles: e. g. more typological representations/depictions of the child rather. 20th century than round characters: shifting idea(l)s + conceptions of a child, from mid-1960s impact of e. g. new. Social movements: children not as entity, but as members of different, intersecting social roles/groups, like adults, e. g. according to race, class, gender, able-bodiedness, adolescents: (developing) sexual orientation, etc. )
