Institutional and Cultural Changes

Question 1

What changes occurred during the Neolithic period?

Answer 1

Agricultural settlements, kinship tied to land, and creation of institutions like writing and trade.

Question 2

How did these changes affect children’s lives?

Answer 2

Differing ontogenetic pathways due to wealth, regulation, and institutional complexity

Question 3

What is institutional reality?

Answer 3

A socially constructed world made of agreed-upon objects and rules(Searle 2015)

Question 4

How did urbanization change childhood

Answer 4

Increased autonomy, shorter childbearing years, formal schooling, weaker family ties

Question 5

What ontogenetic differences might arise in modern vs traditional societies

Answer 5

Differences in autonomy, education, dependency and reproductive timing

Question 6

What example contrasts Western and indigenous worldviews?

Answer 6

British institutional reality vs. the Machiguenga people’s spiritual, oral, and communal world.