The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies

Daniel Thomas Cook

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781529721829
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies navigates our understanding of the historical, political, social and cultural dimensions of childhood.

Transdisciplinary and transnational in content and scope, the Encyclopedia both reflects and enables the wide range of approaches, fields and understandings that have been brought to bear on the ever-transforming problem of the "child" over the last four decades

This four-volume encyclopedia covers a wide range of themes and topics, including:

Social Constructions of Childhood

Children's Rights

Politics/Representations/Geographies

Child-specific Research Methods

Histories of Childhood/Transnational Childhoods

Sociology/Anthropology of Childhood

Theories and Theorists

Key Concepts

This interdisciplinary encyclopedia will be of interest to students and researchers in:

Childhood Studies

Sociology/Anthropology

Psychology/Education

Social Welfare

Cultural Studies/Gender Studies/Disabilty Studies

Index

Entry titles and their page numbers are in bold. Page numbers preceded by 1: are in volume 1, page numbers preceded by 2: are in volume 2, page numbers preceded by 3: are in volume 3, page numbers preceded by 4: are in volume 4.

• AAI. See Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)
• Abbott, Grace, 1:7
• ABC books, 1:1–2. See also Children’s literature; Hidden adult, in literature; Moveable books; Picture books
• Abolitionists and children, 1:61–62
• Abortion, 1:2–6
  • decision making, 1:3–4
  • health and psychological consequences of, 1:5–6
  • negotiating access, 1:4
  • parental consent, 1:5
  • stigma, 1:4–5
  • See also Birth control; Fetal personhood; Reproductive choice; Sexual citizenship; Teenage mothers; Teenage pregnancy
• Aboud, Frances, 4:1344
• Absorbent mind, 3:1108
• Abuse and neglect, 1:380
• Academic perspectives
  • child study, 1:269–270
  • disability studies, 2:645–646
  • global north childhoods, 2:856–858
• ACEs. See Adverse Childhood Experiences study (ACEs)
• ACRWC. See African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC)
• ACS. See Adopted child syndrome (ACS)
• Active minority, 3:1100
• Active readers, 3:1081–1082
• Adair, John, 3:1240
• Adaptability, emotions, 2:714
• Addams, Jane, 1:6–8, 1:7 (fig.), 3:1038, 4:1661
  • biographical information, 1:6–8
  • and Dewey, 1:7
  • kindergarten, 3:1038
  • and Starr, 1:6, 3:1038
  • White House Conferences on children (US), 4:1661
• ADHD. See Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Adler, Alfred, 1:137, 4:1449
• Adler, Patricia, 3:1277
• Adler, Peter, 3:1277
• Adolescence, 1:8–11
  • discursive construction of, 1:8–9
  • mainstream views of, 1:9–10
  • Montessori and, 3:1105
  • study of, 1:10–11
• Adolescence, history of, 1:11–13
  • concept of, 1:11–12
  • scientific discovery of, 1:12–13
• Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education (Hall), 1:12
• Adolescence (Hall), 1:9, 3:892, 4:1684
• Adolescence pregnancy, 1:14–17
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