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Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood - Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood

Editor : Alan Prout, Allison James

Master eBook ISBN10 : 0-203-36260-8

Master eBook ISBN13 : 978-0-203-36260-0

No of pages :280

Originally Published : 26 Apr 1997

No of Copies : 5

Status : Available [You may read this title]

The second and fully revised edition of James and Prout's acclaimed seminal work on the study of childhood.

Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood

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Table of contents : A new paradigm for the sociology of childhood? Provenance, promise and problems, Alan Prout and Allison James; constructions and reconstructions of British childhood - an interpretive survey, 1800 to the present, Harry Hendrick; psychology and the cultural construction of children's needs, Martin Woodhead; a voice for children in statistical and social accounting - a plea for children's right to be heard, Jens Qvortrup; it's a small world - Disneyland, the family and the multiple representations of American childhood, Pauline Hunt and Ronald Frankenberg; negotiating childhood - changing constructions of age for Norwegian children, Anne Solberg; street children - deconstructing a construct, Benno Glauser; who are you kidding? children, power and the struggle against sexual abuse, Jenny Kitzinger; childhood and the policy makers - a comparative perspective on the globalization of childhood, Jo Boyden; re-presenting childhood - time and transition in the study of childhood, Allison James and Alan Prout.


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