CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Private Sphere

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 1F90
• Professor: Rebecca Raby

Document Summary

I/ historicizing western childhood talk about history (both usa and canada) to illustrate the childhood discourses. It is really easy to get caught in the present: disrupts ideas of natural" or normal" in the present, we tend to think about children as what they are like now opposed to how they were, raises important questions: If so, who benefits and how might this thinking perpetuate inequality? (critical theory)- look at context and see how it is relevant. Looking at how people are vs. how they really are in regards to research and studies (modernist approach) C) shifts in ideas: the invention of childhood? (constructionism: philippe aries centuries of childhood (a classic sociologist type of book) He said that there was no childhood in europe and that it did not exist. He determined this by finding evidence in paintings during the medieval ages. The children tended to be represented as adults (how they posed, what they wore, what they were doing)