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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The traditional consignment of childhood to the margins of the social sciences or its primary location within the fields of developmental psychology and education is, then, beginning to change: it is now much more common to find ...
The traditional consignment of childhood to the margins of the social sciences or its primary location within the fields of developmental psychology and education is, then, beginning to change: it is now much more common to find ...
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... field with ideas which in other areas of social science were regarded as obsolete, outmoded or under productive. ... as well as products of, social processes and from the influence of social constructionism we emphasized the social, ...
... field with ideas which in other areas of social science were regarded as obsolete, outmoded or under productive. ... as well as products of, social processes and from the influence of social constructionism we emphasized the social, ...
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However, it is in the very strength of the social constructionist account in opposing the notion of childhood as a given fact, particularly a biological one, that some indications of its limits are beginning to emerge.
However, it is in the very strength of the social constructionist account in opposing the notion of childhood as a given fact, particularly a biological one, that some indications of its limits are beginning to emerge.
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Though unchanged from the original Solberg's chapter still provides a provocative challenge to traditional biological determinism by demonstrating that the physical abilities and social competencies of same-aged children vary according ...
Though unchanged from the original Solberg's chapter still provides a provocative challenge to traditional biological determinism by demonstrating that the physical abilities and social competencies of same-aged children vary according ...
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an analytical category or rather an object of empirical enquiry to which the analytical resources of the social sciences should be brought—a suggestion which raises pointed comparisons with the analytical status of terms such as 'women' ...
an analytical category or rather an object of empirical enquiry to which the analytical resources of the social sciences should be brought—a suggestion which raises pointed comparisons with the analytical status of terms such as 'women' ...
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Contenido
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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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