Has the position of children within the family and society changed?

Following from – and in some ways complementing – the Family and Household Revision Guide I posted yesterday comes this Childhood PowerPoint Presentation, authored by Lisa Wrigglesworth, that provides an overview of some of the key ideas and concepts in the sociology of childhood. These include:

march of progress thesis

child-centred families

toxic childhood

conflict: inequality and control

age patriarchy

the new sociology of childhood.

The objective is to examine the question of whether or not the position of children within the family and society has changed and, if so, to what extent?

Although the Presentation was created in 2017 a lot of the references are slightly-dated – and while this doesn’t invalidate the observations made you might want to add one or two more contemporary pieces of research to bring things up-to-date.