The Social Study of Childhood
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The Social Study of Childhood

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Social Study of Childhood

About this book

Historically, children were often understood in relation to their development towards adulthood, but the 'new paradigm' of childhood studies has since shown how they should be taken more seriously as active participants in their own lives. Studying childhood is not just a question of research on children, but increasingly a practice of research with them. With this 'new paradigm' having now come of age, Sally McNamee offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of childhood studies and its history. Taking a thematic approach, she looks at how issues such as rights and citizenship, the state, the family, school, work, leisure, health and globalisation shape and are shaped by children.

The Social Study of Childhood is an accessible introduction for students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds such as childhood studies, sociology, psychology, social work and education. With reflection points for discussion and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, it is an engaging and stimulating account of how and why children's voices deserve to be heard in today's world.

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Childhood 
and 
the 
State: 
Children, 
Social 
Policy, 
and Law 
89
Further 
reading
Bala, 
N. 
(2004) 
‘Child 
welfare 
in 
Canada: 
An 
introduction,’ 
in 
Bala, 
N., 
Zapf 
M. K., 
Williams, 
J., 
Vogl, 
R., 
and 
Hornick 
J. 
P. 
(ed.) 
Canadian 
child 
welfare 
law: 
Children, 
families 
and 
the 
state
, 
Toronto: 
Thompson 
Educational 
Publishing 
Inc.
Barrett, 
M. 
and 
McIntosh, 
M. 
(1982) 
The 
anti-social 
family
, 
London: 
Verso.
Frankel, 
S. 
(2012) 
Children, 
morality 
and 
society
London: 
Routledge 
(especially 
Chapter 
3
).
Jenks, 
C. 
(1996) 
Childhood
, 
London: 
Routledge.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of illustrations
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction: Childhood, Children and the Child
  6. Chapter 1: Ways of ­Understanding ­Children, ­Childhood, and the Child Over Time
  7. Chapter 2: Theories of ­Childhood
  8. Chapter 3: Issues in Researching Childhood
  9. Chapter 4: Childhood, Rights and ­Citizenship
  10. Chapter 5: Childhood and the State: Children, Social Policy, and Law
  11. Chapter 6: Children and Family
  12. Chapter 7: Children in School
  13. Chapter 8: Children at Work
  14. Chapter 9: Children at Leisure
  15. Chapter 10: Children and Health
  16. Chapter 11: Globalization and ­Diversity in Childhood
  17. Final Thoughts
  18. References
  19. Index