SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Toy Soldier, Ambivalence, Endangerment
Document Summary
Cw: best- too much fun: toys as social problems and the interpretaion of culture. Sociologist joel best addresses 3 themes related to children"s toys answers of popular toys have harmful efects on children. Toys we are warned can turn good children into bad actors- claims made by acivists and sociologist deine toys as social problems. Sociologist of liberal bend tend to sympathize with claims about damaging efects of hazardous toys or racist toys - claims get free ride, receiving criical atenion from sociologist. Argument against toys are fore war toys and sexist toys. Cultures mixed feelings about play and leisure fosters concerns about morally controversial leisure ( sports, popular culture and other forms of recreaion have come under atack at one point or another) Toys used by vulnerable children who are beneicial to many campaigns to protect the young. Elements reinforce one another - children"s exposure to controversial leisure seen as more troubling than adults involvement.
