Changing Status Of Children

Question 1

What did Holman say about gender

Answer 1

Boys and girls will have different experiences of
childhood due to gender role socialisation.
Boys are generally given more freedom at an
earlier age than girls who are often socialised
into the bedroom culture

Question 2

Brannen ethnicity

Answer 2

Asian families for
example parents were much stricter had held
tighter on their daughters

Question 3

Woodroffe and class

Answer 3

Poor mothers are more likely to give birth to
children of lower birth weight which can be
linked to both delayed physical and mental
development.

Question 4

Child liberation view

Answer 4

childhood has become oppressive with adults using the excuse of protection to limit children’s activities
and create a culture of dependency

Question 5

Ways in which children are controlled by adults

Answer 5

Resources
Space
Time
Bodies

Question 6

Bodies

Answer 6

Adults exercise great control over children’s
bodies including how they sit, walk, dress and
are touched etc however they also control how
children may touch their own bodies e.g. not
picking their noses, or plying with their genital

Question 7

Time

Answer 7

Children have rather strict daily routines,
especially during term time, but even in the
holidays parents will control when children eat,
sleep, watch

Question 8

Space

Answer 8

Children’s movements particularly in western
societies is highly regulated. For example
children have specific areas where they are
allowed to play

Question 9

Resources

Answer 9

Industrial societies have limited children’s access
to earning money so remain dependent on
adults.

Question 10

Conflict view

Answer 10

Children still experience conflict in society.
Different children will have different
experiences of childhood