Thursday, April 14, 2011
Putting childishness into perspective...
One of my current sociological interests is the UK's inability to socialise children properly (see the article on Laura Hall below). Sometimes this expresses itself in a fear and nervousness towards children, at others it wrongly judges children to be 'just like adults' and thus makes lopsided judgements against them. So it was with Rebecca Black last month whose vanity pop single, Friday, attracted disproportionate hostility. My piece here attempted to put the twitter rage into perspective..
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