Chinese household corporal punishment averaged less severe than European Christian
Evidence
What I am claiming is narrower. On average, across the comparable centuries, Chinese household corporal punishment was less frequent and less severe than European Christian household corporal punishment. And the Confucian framework, particularly the technology of face, is one of the load-bearing reasons. — , The Rod and the Child, 917
Categorization
- QUESTION: The claim rests on comparing ‘comparable centuries’ — worth checking what quantitative evidence actually exists.
- XREF: connects to: Medieval Christian childhood was more corporally violent than late-Roman elite childhood — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 11497; Widespread doctrinal reform has failed to change actual corporal punishment practice — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4206; Doctrinal texts are post-hoc justifications for structural causes of corporal punishment, not causes themselves — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4203 (+2 more)
Related
- Medieval Christian childhood was more corporally violent than late-Roman elite childhood (similarity 0.86)
- Doctrinal texts are post-hoc justifications for structural causes of corporal punishment, not causes themselves (similarity 0.85)
- Widespread doctrinal reform has failed to change actual corporal punishment practice (similarity 0.84)
- Muslim scholars reformed doctrine while lay practice still reproduces inherited corporal punishment (similarity 0.81)
- Anti-corporal-punishment movements emerged independently within each religious tradition (similarity 0.80)
- Buddhist doctrine has not measurably reduced corporal punishment in Mahāyāna countries (similarity 0.80)
- Multiple world traditions prescribe bounded corporal correction within specific parameters (similarity 0.80)
- Institutional structures, not ideology, determined severity of corporal practice (similarity 0.79)
- Christian pedagogical cruelty was doctrinally contingent, not theologically fixed (similarity 0.79)
- Medieval Jewish schools punished children less than medieval Christian schools did (similarity 0.79)
- Corporal punishment was not the engine of medieval intellectual achievement (similarity 0.79)
- Christian doctrine alone did not produce medieval classroom harshness (similarity 0.79)
- Corporal punishment rates in Muslim countries exceed those of non-Muslim populations (similarity 0.78)
- Contemporary Christian denominations are shifting away from corporal correction (similarity 0.78)
- Religious traditions framed child corporal punishment as love, not violence (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Medieval Christian childhood was more corporally violent than late-Roman elite childhood
#corroborates(0.70) — , The Rod and the Child, 11497 - Widespread doctrinal reform has failed to change actual corporal punishment practice
#corroborates(0.55) — , The Rod and the Child, 4206 - Muslim scholars reformed doctrine while lay practice still reproduces inherited corporal punishment
#corroborates(0.50) — , The Rod and the Child, 3725 - Doctrinal texts are post-hoc justifications for structural causes of corporal punishment, not causes themselves
#complicates(0.40) — , The Rod and the Child, 4203