SOC 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tabula Rasa, Sociology Of The Family, Medicalization
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Sociology november 10th lecture notes: the medicalization of childrearing. The kind of advice priests/medical experts were giving lead to how people chose to rear their children. Under roman law it was the patriarchs responsibility to beat his children and wife to correct behavior. Children were born as a product of sin under catholicism, father could beat the devil out of the child. Industrial revolution transforms religion and society in general, by 1700s institutionalization of protestantism occurred, belief in the blank slate or not being born good or bad but innocent, needing to be shaped which was the father"s responsibility. * shaped to be a good worker for lower class (start by showing father respect and obedience and carry this into the workplace) and to be a capitalist for higher classes. * protestantism demanded self restraint and discipline, father beat children to teach this so that they would know this for the future, focus on delayed gratification; correcting behavior .
