Theorizing Childhood

Theorizing Childhood
Title Theorizing Childhood PDF eBook
Author Allison James
Publisher Polity
Pages 256
Release 1998-02-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780745615646

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Theorizing Childhood

Theorizing Childhood
Title Theorizing Childhood PDF eBook
Author Allison James
Publisher
Pages 247
Release 1998-01-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780807737309

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Drawing on contemporary sociological and anthropological research, this text develops key links between the study of childhood and social theory, exposing its historical, political and cultural dimensions, revealing childhood's socially constructed character.

Theorizing Childhood

Theorizing Childhood
Title Theorizing Childhood PDF eBook
Author Allison James
Publisher Polity
Pages 247
Release 1998-02-04
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9780745615653

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In recent years there has been a rapid growth of interest in the sociological study of childhood. This book brings together the major developments in the field. Drawing on a large body of contemporary sociological and anthropological research, the book develops key links between the study of childhood and social theory, exposing its historical, political and cultural dimensions. Through a consideration of the twin dimensions of childhood - as a structural feature of societies and as a context of children's everyday lives - the book reveals childhood's socially constructed character. Exploring the spatial and temporal boundaries of children's lives, the authors set out the theoretical contexts within which more empirical studies of childhood are embedded. Rather than using conventional categories of home, school and play, Theorizing Childhood is organized round themes such as space, time, culture, the body and work. In this way, the book explores the differences in recent approaches to childhood research, inviting valuable new insights into the study of childhood. Theorizing Childhood is a timely book which demonstrates the centrality of childhood in sociological theory and contemporary debates concerning the state, welfare and morality.

Theorising Childhood

Theorising Childhood
Title Theorising Childhood PDF eBook
Author Claudio Baraldi
Publisher Springer
Pages 278
Release 2018-03-23
Genre Social Science
ISBN 3319726730

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Focusing on children's citizenship, participation and rights, this edited collection draws on the work of a number of leading scholars in the sociology of childhood. The contributors explore a range of themes including: tensions between pragmatism and grand theory; revisiting agency/structure debates in the light of children; the challenging of binary thought prevalent in studies around 'generations' and other aspects of sociology; the manifestation of power in time and space; the application of theories into the 'real' world through NGOs, practitioners, policy makers, politicians and empirical research. The collection will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including childhood studies, sociology, politics and social policy, as well as policy makers and practitioners interested in the citizenship, rights and participation of children.

Childhood

Childhood
Title Childhood PDF eBook
Author Chris Jenks
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 472
Release 2005
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780415340250

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Childhood is an extremely complex and highly contested concept. It refers to a life phase as well as to the age group defined as children, but is also a cultural construction, part of the social and economic structure of communities. The key scholarship collected, introduced, and reprinted in these volumes reflects this complexity and introduces the reader to the wide variety of interpretations that have been and continue to be placed on it. It might be suggested that the push or initiative in theorizing childhood has derived from advances within sociology and anthropology. However, the future provides potential for interdisciplinary study, which this collection also reflects. The contemporary study of childhood must comprise a conjoining of disciplines: sociology; anthropology; psychology; social geography; history; philosophy; and socio-legal theory, all have something to add to the field and are represented within the collection.

Constructing Childhood

Constructing Childhood
Title Constructing Childhood PDF eBook
Author Allison James
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 244
Release 2017-03-14
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0230214274

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This text provides a critical analysis of the social construction of childhood and children's agency. Through an interdisciplinary synthesis combining social theory, social policy and the empirical findings of social science research, it bridges the current gap between theory and practice, offering an incisive theoretical account of childhood that is grounded in substantive areas of children's lives such as health, education, crime and the family. This furthers understanding of the impact of policy on children's everyday lives and social experiences.

Childhood

Childhood
Title Childhood PDF eBook
Author Chris Jenks
Publisher Routledge
Pages 188
Release 2020-10-28
Genre Education
ISBN 1000142841

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In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society: the history of childhood from medieval times through the enlightenment 'discovery' of childhood to the present the mythology and reality of child abuse and society's response to it the 'death' of childhood in cases such as the James Bulger murder in which the child itself becomes the perpetrator of evil. Part of the highly successful Key Ideas series, this book gives students a concise, provocative insight into some of the controlling concepts of our culture.