| #311390 in Books | Vintage Random House | 1994-08-02 | 1994-08-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.60 x5.20l,.47 | File Name: 0679751661 | 177 pages | Vintage Random House
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Prophetic|By Jiang Xueqin|Written in 1982, "The Disappearance of Childhood" is prophetic in how it predicts the birth of the adult-child. In Neil Postman's analysis, "childhood" is a social construct, invented in response to the printing press revolution. Literacy was a clear dividing line between adults and children, and once "childhood" was invented adults felt also compel|From Publishers Weekly|The author of Technopoly examines the embattled nature of childhood in contemporary American culture. |Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.||"Postman persuasively mobilizes the insights of
From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today−and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood.
Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman, author of Technopoly, suggests that childhood is a relatively recent invention, which came into being as the new medium of pr...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Disappearance of Childhood | Neil Postman. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
