CHILDHOOD

Question 1

Jane Pilcher

Answer 1

The most important idea of childhood is separateness
Childhood is the ‘golden age’

Question 2

5 ideas of Separateness from Children to Adults (Jane Pilcher)

Answer 2

• restricted by laws
  -dress codes
• consumerist goods
• entertainment
• maturity

Question 3

Evaluation of Pilcher
Stephen Wagg

Answer 3

• Childhood is ‘socially constructed’
  No single universal childhood experience
  Simply Biological immaturity

Question 4

Gender and childhood

Answer 4

Girls
- Emphasis on bedroom culture
- Greater protection (McRobbie)
Boys
- Turning down their emotions
- Preparation for breadwinner

Question 5

Class and Childhood

Answer 5

Middle Class
- Renaissance children and enrichment - a project of development
- To obtain culture capital
- Helicopter parents
- Consertive cultivation
Working Class
- Natural Growth

Question 6

Ethnicity and Childhood

Answer 6

• No freedoms to move around neighbourhood if parents have experienced violent racist attacks
• Asian girls are restricted due to vulnerability
• Ethnographic Research - internalising family traditions

Question 7

changes in children positions

Answer 7

• compulsory schooling
• child protection and welfare
• growth of rights
• declining family size
• laws and policies
• industrialisation

Question 8

postman - disappearance

Answer 8

• access to the internet
• similarities to adults e.g. clothing, crimes and unsupervised games

Question 9

information hirerarchy

Answer 9

• adults can access more information but children and developing, adult world used to be secret form children
• tv has images of sex and violence, visual understanding
  loss of innocent
  children behave like adults

Question 10

opie

Answer 10

evidence of separate child culture, e.g. games and nurses rhymes, just changing not dispeaaring after lifelong research

Question 11

jenks

Answer 11

childhood is changing
development of relationships with children from unstable parents
helicopter parenting and more protection