David Oswell is Reader in Sociology and Director of Postgraduate Research in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Television, Childhood and the Home: A History of the Making of the Child Television Audience in Britain (2002), Culture and Society (2006), Cultural Theory: Volumes 1-4 (2010) and various articles in academic journals and edited collections.
Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction
2. Agency after Ariès: sentiments, natures and spaces
Part II. Social Theories of Children and Childhood: 3. Modern social theories: agency and structure
4. Partial and situated agency
5. Subjectivity, experience and post-social assemblages
Part III. Spaces of Experience, Experimentation and Power: 6. Family and household
7. School and education
8. Crime and criminality
9. Health and medicine
10. Play and consumer culture
11. Political economies of labour
12. Rights and political participation
Part IV. Conclusions: 13. Conclusions.
