HIST 3115 Study Guide - Final Guide: Listing Rules, Shipbuilding, Focus Group
Document Summary
Eras: pre-modern, modern 19th century, 20th century wars, post war: gender, class, race evolution. Early modern youth often played games that we would consider inappropriate for people at that age to play. Or, if you take another example from the 19th century, we"ll see how it"s completely normal for 13 year olds to work in factories. This seems unusual to us in the west. During the 19th century we start to see new ideas about youth emerging. The middle class was getting bigger and what we"d see is as the middle class grew, middle-class children were seen as more important to family life and they were treated in new kinds of special ways. This is where there was an increase of production. Gender plays an important role in how adults approach children and youth, and the experiences young people have. Gender basically means, the meaning we attach to sexual difference.
