HREQ 1800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Consumerism, Neil Postman, Childhood And Society

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1800
• Professor: Naomi Couto

Document Summary

That the technology of our culture makes it impossible to conceal anything from the young. Course text: using nick lee"s work on childhood and society . What postman means by child is the universal definition of child, which is a dependant young human being on the way to become an adult. 1948: general assembly of the united states proclaim a universal declaration of human. Rights (that all human beings, regardless of the political regime they lived under, had a number of basic rights and freedoms that no state could take away from them). 1989: (41 years later ), the un convention on the rights of the child is adopted. Adults and children as fundamentally different types of humans. Special range of rights provided for those under 18 years of age. Seen in this division of: adult = human being, child = human becoming. Key: consider the social implications of such thinking, labelling .