HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Ragged Dick, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Joel Bakan
Document Summary
April 4: continuity and change: the past, present, and future of childhood. Extending the period of youth into the 20s bc university. Child is innocent and closer to nature paintings. Rise of adolescents with changes to larger society. G. stanley hall -storm and stress, sees adolescents asa biological force tied to puberty. challenged by margret mead all about culture, girls in samoa didn"t have same adjustment issues, not same storm and stress. Change in continuity about school does school represent youth empowerment or social. 21st century children in consumer economy are both emotionally priceless and economically control useful. Face of victimhood is white little boy. White girls have more opportunity for success. How do we measure if children are better or worse off health, economic, Must state time period these things were bad like 60s, 20s etc. Restricts creativity -self representation: hair debate (karr vs schmidt freak flag secondary source) and hippies (yorkville article)