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Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood 2nd edition


Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood 2nd edition

Paperback by James, Allison; Prout, Alan

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

£48.99

ISBN:
9780750705967
Publication Date:
26 Apr 1997
Edition/language:
2nd edition / English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:
Routledge Falmer
Pages:
280 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 14 - 19 May 2024
Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood

Description

First published in 1997. The second and fully revised edition of James and Prout's acclaimed seminal work on the study of childhood.

Contents

A new paradigm for the sociology of childhood? Provenance, promise and problems, Alan Prout and Allison James; constructions and reconstructions of British childhood - an interpretive survey, 1800 to the present, Harry Hendrick; psychology and the cultural construction of children's needs, Martin Woodhead; a voice for children in statistical and social accounting - a plea for children's right to be heard, Jens Qvortrup; it's a small world - Disneyland, the family and the multiple representations of American childhood, Pauline Hunt and Ronald Frankenberg; negotiating childhood - changing constructions of age for Norwegian children, Anne Solberg; street children - deconstructing a construct, Benno Glauser; who are you kidding? children, power and the struggle against sexual abuse, Jenny Kitzinger; childhood and the policy makers - a comparative perspective on the globalization of childhood, Jo Boyden; re-presenting childhood - time and transition in the study of childhood, Allison James and Alan Prout.

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