HUMA 1970 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Geoffrey Pearson
2 Oct 2014
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How do we view childhood: geography, time and place, perspectives (beliefs, biological. Jenks, james, prout: new sociology of childhood, childhood as a social construction, how childhood is shaped and ascribed a meaning in particular contexts. Moral panic and the constructions of crisis: concept of moral panic points to the ways in which some events acquire the status of symbolic acts of deviance through inflated media reports that exaggerate and distort the threat. Worlds of childhood midterm review: society looking towards individual instead of external values and norms. Ulrich beck: process of individualization in 3 stages, dis embedding breaks from ties of family, loss that leads to disenchantment, re embedding re imagined forms of social commitment. Keywords: social constructions, discourse, puritan discourse of childhood, the tabula rasa discourse, romantic discourse, philippe aries, lloyd demause, john locke, jean jacques rousseau. Looks at how categories are constructed seen and understood in any given society.
