Unit 1 SCLY1 - Culture and Identity; Families and Households; Wealth, Poverty and Welfare
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Summary of Families and Households - Childhood - Has the position of childhood improved? (AS, A-level, and GCSE)
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Has the position of childhood improved?-Sociologist list
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Heheh-Sociologist Heheh-Important information
The March of Progress view
● Lloyd de Mause(1974)→includes Aries and Shorter
- March of Progress view→childhood is consistently getting better over a
period of time
- Western societies in recent years have been steadily improving and today is
better than it has ever been
- Quote on childhood before→” The lower level of childcare, and the more
likely children are to be killed, abandoned…”
- Today's children are more valued, better cared for, protected and educated,
enjoy better health and have more rights than those of previous generations
- Example: Laws and regulations mean that children are protected from harm
- Statistic on better healthcare and higher standards of living→ In 1900, the
infant mortality rate was 154 per 1,000 live births; today it is 4 per 1,000
→the child-centred family
● Information on the child-centred family
- The family has become more child-centred → the focal point of the family
- Greater financial and emotional investment is given to the child→give them
a better life than the life that they had
- Society as a whole has become child-centred; not just the family(e.g. Media
output and leisure activities are designed for children)
- Statistics on higher living standards and smaller family size→5.7 births per
woman in the 1860s to 1.83 in 2014)→provide for children’s needs properly
→toxic childhood
● Palmer(2007;2010)
- ‘Toxic Childhood’
- Childhood is becoming worse due to rapid technological and cultural changes
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