Children and Agency: Religion as Socialisation in Late Antiquity and the Late Medieval West

Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari; Vuolanto, Ville

doi:10.1179/cip.2011.4.1.79

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“…The impact of environment has also had the effect of creating a dramatic shift in the ways in which sociologists think about children and young people, moving beyond theories of children as mostly passive agents in their socialization, towards seeing children as cultural and social agents in the transmission of culture. Children ' … inhabit a world of meaning created by themselves and through their interaction with adults' (see James, Jenks, and Prout 1998 on the 'socially constructed child', with the quote on p. 28, and discussion in Pudsey 2017 andKatajala-Peltomaa andVuolanto 2011). The expanding of horizons from local perspectives during one's formative years would shape cultural awareness, the development of independence and cultural identity, and adaptability to new circumstances.…”

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Children’s Urban Environments in an Ancient City: Social and Physical Realities

Pudsey

Vuolanto

2021

Childhood in the Past

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The crucial roles played by young people in the lives of ancient urban and civic spaces has been underestimated in discussions of urban life. Through our case study in Roman Egypt, we scrutinize expectations placed on young people, the specific roles they would have taken in these environments, and their agency in shaping, and responding to, the expectations and demands placed on them by their physical and social environments. The discussion addresses three major themes: young people's visibility and accessibility within the city scape; expectations placed on young people and their agency in responding to them; and the geographical and practical limits of movement for young people. The research is based on papyri from the Roman Egyptian metropolis of Oxyrhynchos and its administrative area, from late first century BCE to sixth century CE, and a resulting database of over 700 cases mentioning children and young people.

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confidence: 99%