HDE 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Backgammon, Weaning, Ethnocentrism
9 Apr 2018
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Lecture 1: introduction / neontocracy and weird science (april 2, 2018, where do children come from, culture bound flaw in psychology, developmental psychology is a victim of dual identity: *weird: white (~30%), educated (~86%), industrialized (~40%), rich (~20%), democratic (~4. 4%: the population sample where most research is taken from. Primatologists point out that developmental psychologists: over-reliance on lab-experiments or questionnaires to justify their claims of human uniqueness. Even in societies that didn"t practice enslavement of other adults, children were treated as property of the head of the household: types of pyramids in our social cultures. Juvenile skeletons had similar scars as adults suggesting dangerous or heavy work was common practice. By 1400 professional toy-makers had shops in nuremburd and augsburd and began to export their wars to italy and face. Manor children also played chess and backgammon and learned falconry and fencing ~hanawalt, 1986: childhood has been categorized with: [kids are fragile, childhood is fragile]
