CHYS 2P38 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Human Conditions, Performativity, Street Children

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P38
• Professor: Thomas O' Neill

Document Summary

Chapter 1: childhood in a global context: childhood is socially constructed. Children"s lives are shaped by the social and cultural expectations adults and their peers have of them in different times and places. The lives are profoundly shaped by constructions of childhood: childhood has universal characteristics. If an infant"s biological immaturity makes him dependent on physical care, than they are considered socially and culturally immature. Europeans see the child as a tabula rasa: childhood is governed by international institutions. Responsibility codified in customary, religious or national law or ritual: childhood is shaped by both the local and the global. This is based on the presumption that childhood can be governed at a global level. 1960: phillipe aries argued that as soon as children left the dependent state of early childhood there was no concept of children as a separate category of people requiring special treatment from adults. Depicted children as small versions of adults.