Different infancy perceptions

My topic will be on the different infancy perceptions that some authors speak about. The traditional studies about infancy have had a significant importance until recently, because, they are based on the idea that childhood is a stage of biopsychosocial development, where children do not have an active role in the society, rather they are in a previous stage in which are preparing them to be adults. 

Emile Durkheim, considers children as a nature’s state, far from what we'd consider as ‘’civilized’’. Also, is Talcott Parsons, who gives a lot of importance to the family and its role in child socialization.

Early nineties, a new vision began to generate a critic analysis on how childhood had been understood in traditional studies. This give origin to a contemporary sociological theory which consider that “Childhood as a social fact, and represents a first attempt in the consideration of the family like an object of autonomous sociological interest’’ (Pávez, 2012 ).

Gaitán criticize childhood’s vision like a natural phenomenon on her writing ‘’Ser niño en el siglo XIX’’ which still stands as a paradingm as ‘’a social construction that becomes historically and culturally in the adults-children relationships’’.

To finish, in Chile, different authors have positioned the idea of the childhood under a sociologic view and have used firstly Gaitán as a reference for carry on their owns studies.