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In this timely study, high profile researchers contribute to the burgeoning field of the social studies of childhood with original and often surprising perspectives and approaches. They demonstrate that far from being esoteric or negligible, childhood is part and parcel of the social fabric in both poor and affluent countries. With chapters on children's agency in small worlds and childhood's placement in large scale relationships, the book shows not only the variety of childhood(s), but also suggests that much is common in a generational context.
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Yes, you can access Studies in Modern Childhood by J. Qvortrup in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Education Theory & Practice. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. Varieties of Childhood
- 2. Complex Interconnections: the Global and the Local in Children's Minds and Everyday Worlds
- 3. Mediatized Childhoods: Discourses, Dilemmas and Directions
- 4. Opting in to (and out of) Childhood: Young People, Sex and the Media
- 5. Is it Time to Rethink Media Panics?
- 6. The Terrors of Hypervigilance: Security and the Compromised Spaces of Contemporary Childhood
- 7. Childhood and Transgression
- 8. Prisoners of Childhood: Orphans and Economic Dependency
- 9. 'In Defence of Childhood': Against the Neo-Liberal Assault on Social Life
- 10. The Wealth of Children: Reconsidering the Child Labour Debate
- 11. The Priceless Child Revisited
- 12. Work, Welfare and Generational Order: Towards a Political Economy of Childhood
- 13. Social Justice and the Rights of Children
- 14. Collective Action and Agency in Young Children's Peer Cultures
- 15. Life Times: Children's Perspectives on Age, Agency and Memory across the Life Course
- 16. Structuration of Childhood: an Essay on the Structuring of Childhood and Anticipatory Socialization
- Index