CHST 1000 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Intellectual Disability, Margaret Mead, French Revolution
1 Apr 2015
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The definition of children vary: someone who is under eighteen, who hasn"t fully developed socially, mentally or physically. A young being learning and growing in society. Child soldiers, child labour, sex trafficking, voting age. Complexity of childhood: understandings of childhood may vary widely across time and space within societies and communities. Childhood is a cultural construction: understanding, significance, and meaning are developed not separately within the individual, but through language and culture, in coordination with other human beings. The interdisciplinary story of the early period of the human. Life course that is legally recognize and socially (as well as in part scientifically) defined as childhood, as distinct from adult hood. Minority world- focusing on the real minorities in the world. Minority live in the wealthy parts of the world. The notion that childhood is in crisis has been going strong throughout the 20th century and even long before. The moral panic (crisis) from children has always been around.
