late modernity and notion of crisis

late modernity and notion of crisis

1. individuals take responsibility for creating and maintaining their own biographies (Giddens 1991)

2. Jenks (1996)

   • concerns for childhood are a reflection of broader adult concerns about identity and security in changing times

3. parenting in late modernity

   • link between romanticism, consumerism and science
     • re-embedding of a reconfigured version of childhood styled to accommodate changing social relationships
     • romanticism
       • pregnancy is a special time as children are a gift from god
     • consumerism
       • commodification of pregnancy, birth and paretnting
         • 3d scans, nappies, bday parties
     • science
       • 3d scans, stem cell storage

4. policy orientated and shaped by popular social discourses

   • children are victims of consumer culture and parents are victims of pester power