HIST 2800- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 64 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2800
• Professor: Erin J Schuurs

Document Summary

The history of childhood and the modern family. What is unique about the western experience of childhood: western ideas of childhood are intricately connected to the age of imperialism. In 1939, norbert elias published the civilizing process, elias argued: The distance in behavior and whole psychological structure between children and adults increases in the course of the civilizing process. By civilizing process, elias meant the control of our personal instincts the ability to control ourself, our impulses, and demonstrate good matters this was essential to defining a child from an adult. In modern society, mothers place the welfare of their small children above all else: they believed that over time there have been major changes in attitudes and treatment of children. Historians critiqued these theories, as they all relied on aries thoughts which were focused on families from france.