Theorizing childhood / Allison James, Chris Jenks and Alan Prout.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Polity, 1998.Description: 247p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780745615646 (hbk.) :
- 9780745615653 (pbk.) :
- 9780745615646
- 305.23 JAM
- HQ767.9 .J35 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-237) and index.
Part I: Imagining Childhood. 1. The Presociological 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. Notes. References. Index.
This is a timely book which demonstrates the centrality of childhood in sociological theory and contemporary debates concerning the state, welfare and morality.