Theorizing childhood /
By: James, Allison.
Contributor(s): Jenks, Chris [author] | Prout, Alan [author].
Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 1998, (2018)Description: 247 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0745615643; 9780745615646:; 9780745615646; 0745615651; 9780745615653.Subject(s): Children -- Social conditions | Children | Child developmentDDC classification: 305.23 JAMItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-237) and index.
Pt. I. Imagining childhood -- 1. The presociological child -- 2. The sociological child -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. III. Theorizing childhood -- 10. Theorizing childhood.
This is a timely book which demonstrates the centrality of childhood in sociological theory and contemporary debates concerning the state, welfare and morality.