Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood
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Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood

Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood

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Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood

Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of Childhood

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First published in 1997. The second and fully revised edition of James and Prout's acclaimed seminal work on the study of childhood.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2003
ISBN
9781135715489
Edition
2

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Preface to Second Edition
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: A New Paradigm for the Sociology of Childhood? Provenance, Promise and Problems
  8. Chapter 2: Constructions and Reconstructions of British Childhood: An Interpretative Survey, 1800 to the Present
  9. Chapter 3: Psychology and the Cultural Construction of Children’s Needs
  10. Chapter 4: A Voice for Children in Statistical and Social Accounting: A Plea for Children’s Right to be Heard
  11. Chapter 5: It’s a Small World: Disneyland, the Family and the Multiple Re-representations of American Childhood
  12. Chapter 6: Negotiating Childhood: Changing Constructions of Age for Norwegian Children
  13. Chapter 7: Street Children: Deconstructing a Construct
  14. Chapter 8: Who Are You Kidding? Children, Power, and the Struggle Against Sexual Abuse
  15. Chapter 9: Childhood and the Policy Makers: A Comparative Perspective on the Globalization of Childhood
  16. Chapter 10: Re-presenting Childhood: Time and Transition in the Study of Childhood
  17. Notes on Contributors