HIST 3130 Lecture Notes - Juvenile Delinquency, Gordon Riots, Liminality
27 Nov 2013
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. historians have borrowed the concept of liminality from anthropologists. Liminality was defined by the anthropologist victor turner as a period betwixt and between" an in-between state. The limited stage is ended by a rite of passage" which marks the beginning of full belonging in a given society. Apprenticeship was the rite of passage that brought a child into adulthood, if they didn"t it was likely marriage, however in the 18th and 19th century education slowly became a rite of passage once graduating. John locke and rousseau"s supporters seemed to have an ideological divide. Locke made the thoughts concerning education stating that children were essentially blank states that could be filled with knowledge and experience starting essentially blank. Argued for children to be pushed into the world to have experiences to establish their character. Rousseau argued a few decades later that children shouldn"t be pushed into the world as they were fundamentally innocent, child needed to develop at his/her own pace.
