Family - Topic 4 - Childhood

• How many sociologists look at childhood?

  5
• What did Palmer look at?


  Toxic childhood
• What did Bhatti look at?

  Asian girls are more strictly controlled by their parents
• What did Aries look at?

  Children were seen as mini adults in the medieval times and that childhood is socially constructed and emerged recently with industrialisation
• What did Wagg look at?

  Childhood is a social construction
• What did Postman look at?

  Disappearance of childhood as a result of technology
• What are the key theorists that look at childhood?

  • Aries
  • Postman
  • Palmer
  • Bhatti
  • Wagg