Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood

Name: Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood
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ISBN: 9780750705967

ISBN-10: 0750705965

ISBN-13: 9780750705967

Edition: 2nd 1997 (Revised)

Authors: Allison James, Alan Prout

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This edition of James and Prout's seminal work on childhood study contains a collection of articles which draw on a variety of disciplines to show how childhood is constructed in society, and the direction in which childhood study is moving.

Book details

List price: $75.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/1/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface to Second Edition


Introduction



A New Paradigm for the Sociology of Childhood? Provenance, Promise and Problems



Constructions and Reconstructions of British Childhood: an Interpretative Survey, 1800 to the Present



Psychology and the Cultural Construction of Children's Needs



A Voice for Children in Statistical and Social Accounting: a Plea for Children's Right to Be Heard



It's a Small World: Disneyland, the Family and the Multiple Re-Representations of American Childhood



Negotiating Childhood: Changing Constructions of Age for Norwegian Children



Street Children: Deconstructing a Construct



Who Are You Kidding? Children, Power, and the Struggle Against Sexual Abuse



Childhood and the Policy Makers: a Comparative Perspective on the Globalization of Childhood



Re-Presenting Childhood: Time and Transition in the Study of Childhood


Notes on Contributors


Index