HREQ 1800 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Tabula Rasa

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Professor L.Visano

Document Summary

Social constructs: social creations subject to redefinitions by the society or culture that attempt to define them. Oswell: childhood assumes multiple emergent forms within diverse social, economic, historical, and cultural contexts. Shanahan: important distinction between the study of children as members of a particular society and the study of childhood as a set of cultural ideas. "children" refer to blood, step or adopted sons and daughters (regardless of age or marital status) who are living in the same dwelling as their parent(s), as well as grandchildren in households where there are no parents present. In addition, the sons or daughters who do not live in the same dwelling as their parent(s) are not considered members of the census family of their parent(s). Sons or daughters who study or have a summer job elsewhere but return to live with their parent(s) during the year are considered members of the census family of their parent(s).