Michael Wyness

Childhood and Society

An Introduction to the Sociology of Childhood

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores a range of approaches that sociology has employed in researching the lives and social worlds of children, and the phenomenon of childhood. In doing so, it reviews competing theoretical positions on childhood and examines research that assumes children are competent social actors. Key problems relating to childhood are discussed such as poverty, abuse and rights. The book also considers practical, methodological and ethical issues relating to research with children. Student-oriented in structure and style, it is an ideal text for courses offered in Sociology, Early Childhood Studies and related fields.

Table of contents:
Introduction

PART 1: CHILDHOOD AND THEORY
Childhood as a Meaning System
Childhood and Social Structure
Childhood and Modernity

PART 2: LOCATING CHILDREN
Disappearing Childhood? Social Disorder and Social Problems
Policing Childhood: The Family and the State

PART 3: MEASURING CHILDHOOD
The Health and Welfare of the Universal Child
Education and the 'Schooled' Child
Socialisation and Development

PART 4: LISTENING TO CHILDREN
Children's Social Worlds - Culture, Play and Technology
Researching with Children, Researching Childhood
Children: Their Rights and Politics
Conclusion

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780333946497
• ISBN-10: 0333946499
• Artikelnr.: 21565005

Autorenporträt

MICHAEL WYNESS is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University College, Northampton. He is the author of ‘Contesting Childhood’, Falmer Press, 1999,

JO MORAN-ELLIS is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey. She has edited, with Ian Htchby, two collections on children with the Falmer Press, ‘Children and Social Competence’ (1997) and ‘Children, Technology and Culture’ (forthcoming).