Childhood Second Edition

Name: Childhood Second Edition
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ISBN: 9780415341677

ISBN-10: 0415341671

ISBN-13: 9780415341677

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Chris Jenks, David Bohm

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Book details

List price: $46.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/18/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.83" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.462



Notes on the Author


Preface to the Second Edition



Constituting childhood


The child as 'savage'


The 'natural' child


The 'social' child


Socialization theory - the Parsonian paradigm


Developmental psychology - the Piagetian paradigm



Sociological approaches to childhood


The conceptual grounds of sociological thought


The concept of development - time, nature and progress


The child in critical social theory


Sociological models


Conclusion



The birth of childhood


The emergence of childhood


Centuries of childhood


Childhood and social control


The Dionysian child


The Apollonian child


Conclusion



Childhood and social space


Regulated space


Stages and scripts


The timetable - a central metaphor of modernity


Foucault and the spatiality of childhood


Spatialization, periodization and the tactics of control


'Open' or 'closed' orders in the educational process


Geographies of power


Public and private worlds


Stranger danger



The abuse of childhood


An increase in child abuse?


The mythology of child abuse


Contemporary explanations of child abuse


The evolution of the child and child abuse


The politicization of child abuse


The child in modernity - 'futurity'


The child in post-modernity - 'nostalgia'


Conclusion



The strange death of childhood


Traditional conceptions of childhood?


The moral ground?


What is 'the child'?


What does the child need?


What can be done?



Childhood and transgression


The Enlightenment and Nietzsche's challenge


George Bataille and heterology


Transgression - a childhood urge?


All that is solid melts into air


Madness is childhood


Postscript


References