HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Erving Goffman, Parenting Styles, Gerontocracy
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A central and recurring theme in the studies is the problematic nature of being a person in youth\ Much of the literature about youth has inherited assumptions from identity formation. The focus on your is not the inherent characteristics of the young people themselves. But on the constructions of youth through social processes. As a relational concept, youth refers to the social processes whereby age is socially constructed, institutionalised . Significant roles of institutions and of changing economic and political circumstance and their impact on youth. If a child acted up for the longest time the child needed to be punished since the devil is. But they were not as important as horses. They had little value compared to horses. Children were killed by family not treated as property, same as women. Children were exploited in farms and factories for flexibility. The man is the king of the castle (patria postestas)