Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood

Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood
Revised
ISBN: 978-0-7507-0596-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

First published in 1997. The second and fully revised edition of James and Prout's acclaimed seminal work on the study of childhood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

James, Allison

Prout, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A new paradigm for the sociology of childhood? Provenance, promise and problems, Alan Prout and Allison James; constructions and reconstructions of British childhood - an interpretive survey, 1800 to the present, Harry Hendrick; psychology and the cultural construction of children's needs, Martin Woodhead; a voice for children in statistical and social accounting - a plea for children's right to be heard, Jens Qvortrup; it's a small world - Disneyland, the family and the multiple representations of American childhood, Pauline Hunt and Ronald Frankenberg; negotiating childhood - changing constructions of age for Norwegian children, Anne Solberg; street children - deconstructing a construct, Benno Glauser; who are you kidding? children, power and the struggle against sexual abuse, Jenny Kitzinger; childhood and the policy makers - a comparative perspective on the globalization of childhood, Jo Boyden; re-presenting childhood - time and transition in the study of childhood, Allison James and Alan Prout.

Über Autor(innen)

Allison James, Alan Prout