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Childhood as a social construct - Coggle Diagram
Childhood as a
social construct
Jane Pilcher
separateness
to adults
physically and
psychologically
immature
dependant on adults
for biological and
emotional needs
not competent
to run their own
lives
Evidence
=child specific places
=laws in place
=products for children
Prout and James
child
=nature
=simple
=amoral
=person-in
waiting
Adult
=culture
=complex
=moral
=personhood
Culture
Samantha Punch
=Bolivia
=kids take on work
responsibilities
=dangerous conditions
Age of consent
Uk= 16
Philippines= 12
Historical
Difference
Philippe Aries
= middle ages
=childhood didn’t
exist
work at earlier
age
art depicts kids
as smaller adults
1400s
church leaders saw
kids as ‘fragile creatures’
=needed safeguarding
intro of schools
upper classes
dressed their kids in
special clothing
evaluation
=archeological
evidence of toys
Edward
Shorter
= high infant
mortality rates
=indifference
=refer kids as
“it”