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Discuss the view that childhood is socially constructed.
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Vicky Bourne Discuss the view that childhood is socially constructed. Social construction is the way that something is created through individual, social and cultural interpretations, perceptions and actions of people. Because the definition and state of childhood has not stayed the same throughout history and varies from culture to culture, it is not possible that childhood is biological, therefore it must have been socially constructed for a particular societies needs at a particular time. The roles of children have changed dramatically in the UK alone in the last four hundred years. Children from the pre-industrialisation era were economic assets to the family. It was vital that they helped provide for the family by working and earning a wage. As a result of their work they had little or no education, what they knew was taught by the family, they had a very different socialisation process than what it is familiar in today's society....
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