JSB171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Feral Child, Ethnography
Document Summary
Three disciplinary tools that will predominately be used in order to help us achieve different ways of thinking about society during this lecture: Our lives are the small bubble" of existence that actually makes up the bigger picture". We often just accept our lives for what they are, as we are used to the way we live and take it as being the norm". we very rarely look at our own lives in a critical light. Sociological imagination connects our lives to a much broader spectrum and larger patterns of history and social processes. We believe that children differ from adults in a number of ways and are generally perceived as innocent, and unable to understand adult concepts etc. Thus, we understand that the way we treat and perceive childhood is in fact not universal, but specific to our time and culture. Childhood did not always exist as we know it now.
