Good point, Mark.
Now that I think about it, many of the academics who still use Aries are
`non-specialists' as far as history goes. They tend to be sociologists,
psychologists, political scientists, even demographers. And many of them
have a fairly `conservative' viewpoint. They are the same as the
economists who use Richard Hodges to teach pre-capitalist economics.
> Maybe Aries was right in a certain sense, though I don't agree
> with all he says, esp about the later M.A. -- the emergence of the modern
> state coincides with a PARTICULAR (not the only) view of the child and
> childhood, esp. I would say, the idea that children are truly educable.
Does it also coincide with the emergence of the notion that the child
has immediate rather than future economic potential? Or does that come
later?
Ron R
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Dr. Ronald A. Ross
School of History and Welsh History
University of Wales (Bangor)
Siliwen Road
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales. LL57 2DG
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