SOCPSY 3ZZ3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Cultural Relativism, Developmental Psychology
16 Feb 2021
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Children as worthy of study in their own right: at face value, it might seem that this first commitment merely points to a set of topics that have not previously been given the attention they deserve. It is argued that actors contingently construct all social phenomena in and through their actions, or that phenomena are constituted by discursive processes. Childhood studies researchers view children"s behaviour as primarily sociocultural rather than psychological. In judging whether or not children, or adults, are autonomous, we must specify from what they are free, and/or what they should be free to do: freedom in abstract is meaningless. In the 20th c. , this idea of autonomy as a defining feature of humanity came frequently to be framed in terms closer to the fichtean idea of creative self-determination or self- realisation: rather than kant"s emphasis on rationality. Research methods: a variety of methods of data collection and analysis has been employed in the field of.
