Theorizing childhood / Allison James, Chris Jenks, Alan Prout.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Polity, 1998.Description: 247p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780745615653 (pbk.) :
- 9780745615646 (hbk.) :
- 9780745615646
- 0745615651 (pbk)
- 9780745615653 (pbk)
- 0745615643
- 305.23 JAM
- HQ767.9 .J35 1998
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 305.23 JAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 216778 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-237) and index.
Part I.Imagining childhood -- 1.The presciological child -- 2.The sociological child -- Part 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 -- Part 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.