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Studies in modern childhood : society, agency, culture /

Contributor(s): Qvortrup, Jens.
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: xii, 294 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1403939330 (hardback); 9781403939333:; 9781403939333 (hardback).Subject(s): Children -- Social conditions | Children | Child development | PostmodernismDDC classification: 305.23
Contents:
Varieties of childhood / Jens Qvortrup -- Complex interconnections : the global and the local in children's minds and everyday worlds / Heinz Hengst -- Mediatized childhoods : discourses, dilemmas and directions / Kirsten Drotner -- Opting in to (and out of) childhood : young people, sex and the media / David Buckingham and Sara Bragg -- Is it time to rethink media panics? / Stephen Kline -- The terrors of hypervigilance : security and the compromised spaces of contemporary childhood / Cindi Katz -- Childhood and transgression / Chris Jenks -- Prisoners of childhood : orphans and economic dependency / Judith Ennew -- 'In defence of childhood' : against the neo-liberal assault on social life / Michael Lavalette -- The wealth of children : reconsidering the child labour debate / Olga Nieuwenhuys -- The priceless child revisited / Viviana A. Zelizer -- Work, welfare and generational order : towards a political economy of childhood / Helmut Wintersberger -- Social justice and the rights of children / Hilde Bojer -- Collective action and agency in young children's peer cultures / William A. Corsaro -- Life times : children's perspectives on age, agency and memory across the life course / Allison James -- Structuration of childhood : an essay on the structuring of childhood and anticipatory socialization / Ivar Frønes.
Summary: Researchers show that childhood is part of the social fabric in both poor & affluent countries, with chapters on children's agency in small worlds & childhood's placement in large scale relationships, highlighting the variety of childhoods & suggesting that much is common in a generational context.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 305.23 QVO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0079375
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Varieties of childhood / Jens Qvortrup -- Complex interconnections : the global and the local in children's minds and everyday worlds / Heinz Hengst -- Mediatized childhoods : discourses, dilemmas and directions / Kirsten Drotner -- Opting in to (and out of) childhood : young people, sex and the media / David Buckingham and Sara Bragg -- Is it time to rethink media panics? / Stephen Kline -- The terrors of hypervigilance : security and the compromised spaces of contemporary childhood / Cindi Katz -- Childhood and transgression / Chris Jenks -- Prisoners of childhood : orphans and economic dependency / Judith Ennew -- 'In defence of childhood' : against the neo-liberal assault on social life / Michael Lavalette -- The wealth of children : reconsidering the child labour debate / Olga Nieuwenhuys -- The priceless child revisited / Viviana A. Zelizer -- Work, welfare and generational order : towards a political economy of childhood / Helmut Wintersberger -- Social justice and the rights of children / Hilde Bojer -- Collective action and agency in young children's peer cultures / William A. Corsaro -- Life times : children's perspectives on age, agency and memory across the life course / Allison James -- Structuration of childhood : an essay on the structuring of childhood and anticipatory socialization / Ivar Frønes.

Researchers show that childhood is part of the social fabric in both poor & affluent countries, with chapters on children's agency in small worlds & childhood's placement in large scale relationships, highlighting the variety of childhoods & suggesting that much is common in a generational context.

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