The social construction of the childhood concept in the capitalist system: a bibliographic survey

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the ideological construction of the conception of childhood from a historical-critical perspective. The debate is articulated with the following problematization: What political, economic and social interests linked to the formulation of the concept of childhood made the term a hegemonic social construction in the capitalist system? With this in mind, we carried out a bibliographical and documentary research to meet the following specific objectives: a) categorize, in repositories, how the term childhood has been identified in academic lines, based on the main bibliographies used; b) identify the document sources used in the selected researches; and c) classify the highlighted researches into axes. The research on the theme arises from the need to investigate the difference between the terms child and childhood, historically situating the conception and the new contours in relation to the terms.