Esej o kulturze dziecięcej
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2014
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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Essay About Children’s Culture
Abstract
Until the 1980s there was no place for children in the main discourse of the social sciences. They
were treated as beings specifically pre-social, which have yet to acquire the competencies needed to
operate in the social and cultural worlds of adults. The new sociology of the childhood (of the 1980s
and 90s) proposed a fundamental change in the image of the child and childhood. It developed new
insights into these issues characterized by a desire to perceive, understand and appreciate the needs
of children and their rights, quality of life and respect, and specifically ethnographic curiosity to
their perceptions of reality, for the children's folklore and culture. Sociologists have noticed that the
commercial sphere has already recognized the children both as a (co-)consumers and effective initiators
of consumption; they also noted that in the postmodern culture, not only are children subject to
the cultural patterns proposed by adults, but themselves become “vehicles” of such qualities; adults
seduce their attractiveness, favoring the formation of new habits, preferences and attitudes. This
eventually leads to a serious re-evaluation of the adult culture. Today's world not only justifies but
actually encourages the childlike, turning to the cultural relationships between children and adults.
The paper presents and develops the thesis that children's culture dominated and used to support
the adult world of post-figurative cultures, in postmodern pre-figurative cultures has become enslaved
by the globalized market and is an instrument of management and their consumption of the
adult world.
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child/childhood, children’s culture
Citation
Studia Edukacyjne, 2014, nr 32, s. 189-210
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978-83-232-2837-0