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Children and Culture Final
Final exam
27
Literature
Undergraduate 1
04/19/2009

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post-war permissiveness
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treatment of children: from discipline and authority to pleasure and play.
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post-modern child
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after ww2 decline of stable system of beliefs. text images and technologies. mass production
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legitimate
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taking co-opting and making it authorized. ex: studying children's playground songs
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co-opting
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taking something for one's own use. results sometimes in conflict with the original ideology.
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culture jamming
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taking a part of culture and altering it. twisting it to question society or a norm
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cool
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late 20th c no definite meaning, always changing elusive.
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romantic childhood
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reaction against enlightenment. the child AS IS. child is closer to nature, pure. emphasis on feeling, intuition. challenges: child labor, growing up
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innocence
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not always an ideal. once romantic period hits, innocence is ideal. disconnected from world, blankness.
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knoble savage
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romantic period, wholesome if less civilized by culture.
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pickanniny
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racial stereotype of wild/animalistic view of African American children
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minstrel show
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1830-1900's- songs, skits, jokes, performers wearing black face
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zine
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handmade book created in youth culture. DIY images, personal writings, self creation. 1990's punk culture. challenge to establishment
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gothic anxiety
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fear of things that cannot be understood, specifically with children
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gothic
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genre of literature. tries to get to the irrational, unknown.
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evaluation vs. analysis
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eval- is it good, bad, appropriate?
analysis- what does it mean?
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culture
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terms come from farming: growing, plants. transmitted
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puritan ideology
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great chain of being. child comes into world as a beast. anti-royalist. American colonies. suspicious of religious ceremony. associated with Enlightenment
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anglican ideology
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richer ceremonial practices. children blessed by god. closer ties to Catholicism. associated with ROMANTIC
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enlightenment childhood
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18th c. childhood should be for development, education. SCIENCE. everyone can benefit from education. children are perfectable, blank slates. toys and childrens books emerge. PROBLEMS: some people "less perfect"
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4 stages theory
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culture has 4 stages of development: hunters, shepherds, farmers, capitalists
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romantic child
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end of 18th c. children thought to be closer to god and nature. uncultivated nature, nature is perfect. childhood as a time of freedom and purity. romanticized childhood relationship (mother and child)
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uncle tom's cabin
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eva represents romantic child, topsy as puritan child (needs reformed) book tries to be anti-slavery but is racist at the same time.
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boy culture
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late 19c and 20c. boys as wild careless and full of animal spirits. freedom must end as they become men-struggle.
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pinnochio
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p's need to grow up= enlightenment. emphasis on poverty contradicts Romantic child. born sinful- puritan view.
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the bad beginning
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specifically dealing with discomfort. addresses issues of 19th c- children's death, poverty abuse, child labor
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sentimentalism
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trying to gain support through children
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child study
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late 19th c. fear of puberty in children
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