Theorizing Childhood
1. Edition January 1998
256 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-7456-1565-3
John Wiley & Sons
In recent years there has been a rapid growth of interest in the sociological study of childhood. This new book draws together the major developments in the field. In particular, the book discusses contemporary sociological and anthropological research in order to develop key links between the study of childhood and social theory, exposing its historical, political and cultural dimensions.
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.
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.
'An exciting book by three of the foremost social-scientific
specialists on childhood writing in Britain today; it promises to
consolidate Childhood Studies as a new field of concerted
endeavour.' Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews
'This new book is a spring of inspiration. Theorizing
Childhood addresses in a superb way the main, if not all,
relevant approaches within the 'new sociology of childhood'. It
demonstrates brilliantly the salience of this new field both for
what it can learn from the general body of knowledge and for what
it can itself contribute to modern social science...no scholar in
this or neighbouring fields can afford not to read and digest it.'
Jens Qvortrup, South Jutland University Centre
'The framework developed here is potentially an extremely
powerful one, with enormous potential to stimulate and focus our
thinking about childhood - and in particular our research'
Social Work & Social Sciences Review
specialists on childhood writing in Britain today; it promises to
consolidate Childhood Studies as a new field of concerted
endeavour.' Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews
'This new book is a spring of inspiration. Theorizing
Childhood addresses in a superb way the main, if not all,
relevant approaches within the 'new sociology of childhood'. It
demonstrates brilliantly the salience of this new field both for
what it can learn from the general body of knowledge and for what
it can itself contribute to modern social science...no scholar in
this or neighbouring fields can afford not to read and digest it.'
Jens Qvortrup, South Jutland University Centre
'The framework developed here is potentially an extremely
powerful one, with enormous potential to stimulate and focus our
thinking about childhood - and in particular our research'
Social Work & Social Sciences Review
Allison James is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield and Professor II at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Trondheim; Chris Jenks is Vice-Chancellor of Brunel University; Alan Prout is Professor of Sociology and Childhood Studies at the University of Warwick.
