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Flashcards by selinaward, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by selinaward
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| Sociocultural research embraces aspects of many other disciplines such as; anthropology, cultural studies, geography, social psychology and sociology | Using such a wide range of interdisciplinary methods enables sociocultural researches to produce an insight into many aspects of the lives of children and young people that are not always covered using only one type of research method |
| Sociocultural researches often study aspects of daily lives and practices that can be overlooked by other disciplines | sociocultural researchers, who argue no two childhoods are identical. Therefore sociocultural researchers have the task is to understand and explain these differences which is often referred to as “making the familiar strange”, which means looking beyond the everyday practices of childhood to identify the unique and individual characteristics and experiences to produce a holistic, wider portray of childhood |
| Sociocultural researchers aim to challenge our views and opinions | by introducing factors which are normally overlooked and not consider to enable us to see how experience and views are influenced by changes in the environment all around us |
| Childhood memories - Plummer merely “self-work”. | childhood memories are often shaped by adulthood, because as adults we have more life experience, better use of language and a wider range of understandings in which to base our actions and opinions on |
| The Sociocultural study of childhood and children can be identified by two main concepts, “socialisation and development” | children do not have the same level of cognitive understandings in both social and biological terms until they have life experience and develop into adults |
| Parsons (1951) describes socialisation as children learning and understanding their environment, relationships and culture | without socialisation children would develop into adults that have no place in society (link with Wild Boy) socialisation is a key interest for sociocultural researchers as the foundations of values and understandings taught in childhood, often remain largely unchanged in adulthood, thus they are an extremely important part of the life-course |
| Consumerism is becoming increasingly evident in the construction of childhood - Buckingham (2011) | children now live in a material world and they are consumers at an every decreasing young age- consumer culture in childhood could be to blame for various social issues affecting modern day children. For example, problems concerning early sexualisation and obesity have been blamed on various social problems |
| The new paradigm states that external influences such as adults and other sociocultural forces do not solely construct and influence childhood | instead maintains that children themselves are the most important factor actively influencing and changing their own life’s - childhood relationships and culture should be studied independently to those of adults because children have their own agency and the ability to change their own lives and the society around them |
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