Cultures

• What did Wagg argue about different cultures?


  The construction of childhood varies across different historical and cultural societies. Due to these cross-cultural differences, children are not always seen as vulnerable and can have similar status to adults
• What did Punch suggest about childhood in different cultures?

  Found that children growing up in the countryside in Bolivian were given responsibilities and work to perform at the age of 5. This contrasts with Western attitudes towards child labour that have developed since industrialisation
• What did Katz suggest about childhood in different cultures?

  That children from Sudan have far more freedom to explore and travel around their local area than children in Western societies
• What do some sociologists suggest about how different cultures are treated differently?

  They suggest that children in less industrialised societies are often treated differently to children living in Western societies
• What is the projected onto different cultures?

  The idea of Western childhood
• What did Judith Ennew suggest about humanitarian and welfare work?

  She said that it is often based on the belief that Western childhood is the correct childhood. The idea that childhood should be a separate, more innocent stage of life can be projected through this work onto different cultures