Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood
Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood
Routledge Falmer (Publisher)
Published on 19. September 1990
Book
Hardback
358 pages
978-1-85000-749-4 (ISBN)
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Description
Inspired by the 3rd international workshop on the ethnography of childhood, Cambridge, this book explores the ways in which childhood is socially constructed. It's intention is to show the ways in which the immaturity of children is conceived and articulated in particular societies into culturally specific sets of ideas and philosophies, attitudes and practices which combine to define the "nature of childhood".
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85000-749-4 (9781850007494)
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Allison James | Alan Prout
Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood
Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood
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04/1997
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Routledge Falmer
€160.94
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Content
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 childrens 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; representing childhood - time and transition in the study of childhood, Allison James and Alan Prout.