What is ‘childhood’? How would you define ‘old age’? This module explores how childhood and old age are ‘socially constructed’. You will explore the historical view of children as merely ‘mini adults’, the invention of the ‘teenager’, and the contemporary view of old age being defined as roughly 20 years older than the person defining it. You will discuss how government policy has attempted to keep pace with changing social attitudes and ask questions about what kind of society we should grow up in.
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