Theorizing Childhood - Alan Prout

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Auteur(s) : Alan Prout - Allison James - Chris Jenks

Editeur : Polity Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/01/1998

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 256

Expédition : 492

Dimensions : 23.4 x 16.2 x 2.2

ISBN : 9780745615646

Résumé :
Part I: Imagining Childhood.

1. The Presociological Child.

2. The Sociological Child.

Part II: Situating Childhood. .

3. Childhood in Social Space.

4. The Temporality of Childhood.

5. Play as Childhood Culture?.

6. Working Children.

7. One Childhood or Many?.

8. The Body and Childhood.

9. Researching Childhood.

Part III: Theorizing Childhood.

10. Theorizing Childhood.

Notes.

References.

Index.

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Biographie:
Chris Jenks is Vice-Chancellor of Brunel University...

Sommaire:
Allison James is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield and Professor II at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Trondheim...

a An exciting book by three of the foremost social--scientific specialists on childhood writing in Britain today; it promises to consolidate Childhood Studies as a new field of concerted endeavour.a Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews a This new book is a spring of inspiration. Theorizing Childhood addresses in a superb way the main, if not all, relevant approaches within the a new sociology of childhooda . It demonstrates brilliantly the salience of this new field both for what it can learn from the general body of knowledge and for what it can itself contribute to modern social science...no scholar in this or neighbouring fields can afford not to read and digest it.a Jens Qvortrup, South Jutland University Centre a The framework developed here is potentially an extremely powerful one, with enormous potential to stimulate and focus our thinking about childhood -- and in particular our researcha Social Work & Social Sciences Review