The times of childhood in Colombia through the transformation of the game and of the late 20th century and early 21st century toy

Abstract

The transformation of any social practice, as the child, accompanied by the transformation of the toy game as an artifact that facilitates the activity of the game, either as a stereotype which defines child beauty or technology that allows the subject to inserted into the contemporary reality constitute, as a whole, in a post to problematize times of childhood and its profound changes. Moreover, the speech of the game was opted for disciplines such as history, psychology and sociology, which constitute an important grid of specification around what is the activity for the child in the  process of socialization. The discourse of play as socializing activity, the importance of the toy and its transformation in the last decades of the 20th century and early 21st century, is constituted in conditions of possibility for the emergence of contemporary childhood in Colombia.