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Key concepts in childhood studies / Allison James and Adrian James.
LIBRA HQ767.9 .J35 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Allison.
- Series:
- SAGE key concepts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children.
- Children--Social conditions.
- Teenagers.
- Teenagers--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 142 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Other Title:
- Childhood studies
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2012.
- Summary:
- The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding. Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension. This book has already proved itself as a course adoption leader in Childhood Studies. All of the strengths of the first edition have been retained. The book is comprehensive and judged with the needs of students in mind. It is a model of clarity and precision and has been acknowledged as such in reviews and course feedback. The new edition thoroughly revises old entries and adds new ones. The book is the most accessible, relevant student introduction to this expanding, interdisciplinary field. It is an indispensable teaching text and an ideal prompt for researchers. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Age and Maturity 1
- Agency 3
- Best Interests 6
- Child 8
- Child-focused Research/Research with Children 10
- Child-friendly 13
- Childhood 14
- Child Soldiers 17
- Childhood Studies 18
- Children as Consumers 21
- Children as Researchers 22
- Children's Voices 24
- Citizenship 27
- Competence 29
- Cultural Politics of Childhood 32
- Cultural Relativism 35
- Delinquency 37
- Developmental Psychology 39
- Developmentalism 41
- Disappearance or Loss of Childhood 44
- Diversity 46
- Ethnicity 49
- Familialisation 51
- Family 52
- Friendship 55
- Futurity 57
- Gender 59
- Generation 62
- Global Childhood 64
- Health 66
- Innocence 68
- Internet and New Social Media 70
- Interpretive Reproduction 72
- Minority Group Status 74
- Nature vs. Nurture 76
- Needs 79
- Neglect 81
- Parenting 84
- Participation 86
- Peer Group 89
- Play 91
- Poverty 93
- Protection 95
- Representation 98
- Resilience 99
- Responsibility 102
- Rights 104
- Schooling and Schools 107
- Sexual Abuse 109
- Sexualisation 112
- Social Actor 114
- Social Construction 116
- Social World 117
- Socialisation 120
- Spaces for Children and Children's Places 121
- Standpoint 124
- Street Children 126
- Structure 127
- United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) 129
- Vulnerability 132
- Welfare 134
- Work and Working Children 137
- Youth 140.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1446201902
- 9781446201893
- 1446201899
- 9781446201909
- OCLC:
- 808082302
- Publisher Number:
- 99952326986
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