HUMA 1970 Study Guide - Final Guide: B-Boying, Homo Ludens, Breastfeeding
2 Oct 2014
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Don tapscott wrote a book grown up digital pro digital. Neil postman con negative digital and the disappearance of childhood". Conventional understanding: arts, music, literature or the shared traditional beliefs and values of social groups. Broadened understanding: everyday social practice, ordinary; everydayness as a way of life that makes sense to individuals involved in that community, emerges from and can be observed and studied in day-to-day engagements with the social world. Functions and qualities of the myth of childhood innocence. Qualities: universal, pre-existing, childhood as a utopian space, outside the political in particular, pre-social, child as defenseless and in need of protection, happiness as natural state. Functions: symbolic, nostalgia, power (i. e. erecting an preserving cultural hierarchies; normative assumptions about gender roles and sexual identities) Ideas about innocence are so intricately linked to ideas of childhood that innocence is often seen as an inherent and necessary feature of childhood.
