CHST 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Public Health, Pseudoscience, Bronisław Malinowski

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Child Studies
• Course: CHST 1000
• Professor: Monica Patterson

Document Summary

Google definition - a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority. Child studies is the study of the early period of the human life-course that is legally recognized and socially defined as childhood. This is difficult to define because there is no single agreement on what the field is because the understandings of children vary tremendously. Crisis of childhood is everywhere: media and pop culture, education, parenting advice, public health initiatives. Strikes anxiety that children face a constant threat of a variety of dangers into the minds of parents (leading to overprotection) Is the discussion and communication by the public (society?) of a specific subject (in this case childhood and the crisis followed by it) Minority is 1st world, majority is 3rd world. Developing world (non-west, negative) vs developed world (west) Majority lives in poverty and minority lives in wealth and safety.