Children's childhoods : observed and experienced / edited with an introduction by Berry Mayall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mayall, Berry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child development.

Children.

Children and adults.

Socialization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Washington, D.C. : Falmer Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text explores the social status of children, through consideration of their positioning in a range of social settings and in sociological theory. It focuses on children as social actors in constructing the social order and participating in it.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Women and Children First and Last: Parallels and Differences between Children's and Women's Studies; Children's Rights; Researching Children's Rights to Integrity; The Family; A Refuge from Demands or an Arena for the Exercise of Power and Control; Children's Fictions on Their Future Families; Television and the Definition of Childhood; Creating the Capable Body: Discourses about Ability and Effort in Primary and Secondary School Studies; Children in Action at Home and School

Responsible Children? Aspects of Children's Work and Employment Outside School in Contemporary UKOpportunities for Childhoods in Late Twentieth Century Britain; Childhood as a Mode of Production; Notes on Contributors; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-179) and index.

ISBN:

1-135-71940-3

1-135-71941-1

1-280-31653-5

0-203-48618-8

0-203-20943-5

OCLC:

277665502