SOCI 2P38 Lecture Notes - Middle Ages, Industrial Revolution, Bet Her
23 May 2014
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Important starting points, however, not finishing points: race, class, sexuality: critical categories of analysis and forms of power and privilege, they are more than merely add-ons for understanding: need to work on intersectional approach. Privilege and social categories structure realities in a real way-material, access to rights, and as a form of privilege. De/finite definitions of childhood/youth: no definition of child , vague and confusing. Page : childhood has its own history: the notion of childhood emerged after the middle ages when prior to. A child means every human being below the age of eighteen years unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier. Binary nature: childhood and youth have developed into a phase of life distinct from adulthood, difference are: social, political, cognitive, and physical, binary thinking used to approach childhood and youth compared to adulthood. Arrived: pre social self which will emerge.
