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Childhood as a social construction
Authors: Pechtelidis, Yannis
Reviewer: Kosma, Yvon Alexia
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Abstract:
The basic thesis of this chapter (and of the book) is that childhood is a social construction of a specific historical context. The modern social phenomena related to the construction of childhood as a social category and social position are the industrialization of the capitalist production process, the expansion of wage labour and urbanization, the establishment of the representative parliamentary democratic constitution and the formation of the model of the modern citizen, which resulted in the introduction of mass systematic education of children in combination with the prohibition of child labour and the deprivation of the The thesis that childhood is a phenomenon directly linked to the social, political, historical and economic conditions of the time will be systematically developed in connection with the relatively new theoretical stream of the sociology of childhood.
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/gr
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/4746
Bibliographic Reference: Pechtelidis, Y. (2015). Childhood as a social construction [Chapter]. In Pechtelidis, Y. 2015. Sociology of childhood [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/4746
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Sociology of childhood
Number of pages 20
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions