Exploring new research, policy and thinking within childhood sociology, this book now takes a global view on key and controversial issues in the field. Thenew edition continues to engage with competing theoretical positions, whilst bringing in a new focus on children's agency and featuring a new chapter on children in the workplace. MICHAEL WYNESS Associate Professor of Childhood Studies in the Institute Of Education at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of 'Schooling, Welfare and Parental Responsibility 'and 'Contesting Childhood'. INDICE: Preface to the Second Edition - Introduction - PART I: CHILDHOOD AND THEORY - The Social Meaning of Childhood - Childhood and Social Structure -Children and Childhood in Late Modernity - Theories of Growing Up: Developmentalism and Socialisation Theory - PART II: CHILDREN, SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL POLICY - Childhood in Crisis: Social Disorder and Reconstruction - Children,Family and the State: Policing Childhood - Schooling Children and Childhood -PART III: CHILDREN'S LIVES, CHILDREN'S AGENCY - Children's Social Worlds: Culture, Play and Technology - Researching Children and Childhood: Methods, Ethics and Politics - Children: Their Rights and Politics - Children's Work and Labour: The International Context - Conclusion - Glossary
- ISBN: 978-0-230-24182-4
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés