Children's Childhoods (eBook, ePUB)

Observed And Experienced
Redaktion: Mayall, Berry

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This text explores the social status of children, through consideration of their positioning in a range of social settings and in sociological theory. It focuses on children as social actors in constructing the social order and participating in it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135719401
• Artikelnr.: 49986938

Autorenporträt

Berry Mayall has worked as a researcher at the University of London Institute of Education for over twenty years and is Assistant Director of the Social Science Research Unit. Her major research studies have focused on the daily lives of children and their parents and their use of and satisfaction with services available to them. Her current research is on how far children experience school as a health-promoting environment.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. Women and Children First and Last: Parallels and Differences between Children's and Women's Studies
Chapter 2. Children's Rights
Chapter 3. Researching Children's Rights to Integrity
Chapter 4. The Family-A Refuge from Demands or an Arena for the Exercise of Power and Control - Children's Fictions on Their Future Families
Chapter 5. Television and the Definition of Childhood
Chapter 6. Creating the Capable Body: Discourses about Ability and Effort in Primary and Secondary School Studies
Chapter 7. Children in Action at Home and School
Chapter 8. Responsible Children? Aspects of Children's Work and Employment Outside School in Contemporary UK
Chapter 9. Opportunities for Childhoods in Late Twentieth Century Britain
Chapter 10. Childhood as a Mode of Production
Notes on Contributors
References
Index