Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of ChildhoodFirst published in 1997. The second and fully revised edition of James and Prout's acclaimed seminal work on the study of childhood. |
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In essence we argued that between them they represented childhood and children as natural, passive, incompetent and incomplete and in doing so foreclosed a series of important questions for theory and empirical research, ...
In essence we argued that between them they represented childhood and children as natural, passive, incompetent and incomplete and in doing so foreclosed a series of important questions for theory and empirical research, ...
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So whilst in the First Edition of CRC a number of contributors, for example Woodhead and Boyden, exposed the practical problems of a universalistic conception of childhood, voices are now raised to question how far it is wise to travel ...
So whilst in the First Edition of CRC a number of contributors, for example Woodhead and Boyden, exposed the practical problems of a universalistic conception of childhood, voices are now raised to question how far it is wise to travel ...
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In this view 'the childhood' of a society, and what is happening to it, becomes a key sociological question. In its main publication, Childhood Matters (Qvortrup et al., 1994), contributors developed other important aspects of this ...
In this view 'the childhood' of a society, and what is happening to it, becomes a key sociological question. In its main publication, Childhood Matters (Qvortrup et al., 1994), contributors developed other important aspects of this ...
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Our suggestion that ethnography may be the most important methodology for studying children was in part linked to these questions of agency and action. Children are largely excluded from formal power but already in 1990 the literature ...
Our suggestion that ethnography may be the most important methodology for studying children was in part linked to these questions of agency and action. Children are largely excluded from formal power but already in 1990 the literature ...
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... attitudes and practices which combine to define the 'nature of childhood'. At the heart of current debates lies the question: what is a child? This is not just a matter of semantics but a question increasingly central ...
... attitudes and practices which combine to define the 'nature of childhood'. At the heart of current debates lies the question: what is a child? This is not just a matter of semantics but a question increasingly central ...
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An Interpretative Survey 1800 to the Present | 33 |
Chapter 3 Psychology and the Cultural Construction of Childrens Needs | 61 |
A Plea for Childrens Right to be Heard | 83 |
Disneyland the Family and the Multiple Rerepresentations of American Childhood | 105 |
Changing Constructions of Age for Norwegian Children | 123 |
Deconstructing a Construct | 141 |
Chapter 8 Who Are You Kidding? Children Power and the Struggle Against Sexual Abuse | 161 |
A Comparative Perspective on the Globalization of Childhood | 187 |
Time and Transition in the Study of Childhood | 227 |
Notes on Contributors | 247 |
Index | 251 |
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