SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Mortality Rate, Malthusian Trap, Thomas Robert Malthus

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: jones

Document Summary

Book with message that parrelles margolis but focuses on childhood instead of motherhood. Zelizer provides evidence that an idea of childhood was constructed at the same time as motherhood. Prior to the mid-19th century, children in w. europe and n. america were thought of as little adults. During late 1800s, new idea of childhood began to emerge. Innocence, children needed to be cherished and protected and nurtured. Irony: childhood made kids economically worthless but increasingly valued. Zelizer believes childhood emerged in tandem with motherhood. With the rise of motherhood, mothers helped invent childhood to make their new positions more valued. If mothers sole job was caring for kids, their status was improved by emphasizing the importance of childcare. Middle-class mothers: popularized the ideology of childhood in writings, sermons. Farmers and working class families were very dependant on child labor in the late 1800s and early-1900s.