This textbook for advanced and post graduate students sets out the contexts of children's and young people's lives and encourages students to explore their complexities and contexts.

This new edition has been substantially updated to discuss and analyse new topics and issues that have emerged over the last ten years, including:

• developments in the way that children and young people's lives have been theorised and understood;

• their engagement in all aspects of contemporary cultures including the spiritual as well as the digital;

• the impact of recent political, economic and social change.

Drawing on insights from psychology, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, geography and education, each chapter challenges students' assumptions and examines crucial issues in the field, such as participation, race, rights, law, transnational childhoods and sexuality.

These different perspectives, drawing on different bodies of work, form a holistic picture of the multi-faceted lives of children and young people today.

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Yes, you can access Children and Young People's Worlds by Montgomery, Heather,Robb, Martin,Heather Montgomery,Martin Robb in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Marriage & Family Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Social Sciences

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Marriage & Family Sociology

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Social Sciences

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
One: Reconciling Childhood and Youth Studies and developmental psychology
Two: Children and young people’s cultures
Three: Disability, childhood and young people
Four: Children’s rights and cultural relativism
Five: Inequalities and the social and cultural capital of childhood and youth
Six: Children, young people and race
Seven: Children, young people and sexuality
Eight: Transnational childhoods
Nine: Young men and gender identity
Ten: Children, young people and politics in the UK
Eleven: Children and violence
Twelve: Children’s voice: bridging theory and practice with unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the UK
Thirteen: Children’s spirituality
Fourteen: Food in children and young people’s lives: ambiguous agency and contested moralities
Fifteen: Children’s mental health: controversy, complexity and contestation
Sixteen: Children and their families
Seventeen: The myth of digital childhoods

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