Studies in Modern Childhood: Society, Agency, Culture

J. Qvortrup

Springer, Aug 5, 2005 - Social Science - 294 pages

In this timely study, high profile researchers contribute to the burgeoning field of the social studies of childhood with original and often surprising perspectives and approaches. They demonstrate that far from being esoteric or negligible, childhood is part and parcel of the social fabric in both poor and affluent countries. With chapters on children's agency in small worlds and childhood's placement in large scale relationships, the book shows not only the variety of childhood(s), but also suggests that much is common in a generational context.

Contents

• 1 Varieties of Childhood: 1
• the Global and the Local in Childrens Minds and Everyday Worlds: 21
• Discourses Dilemmas and Directions: 39
• Young People Sex and the Media: 59
• 5 Is it Time to Rethink Media Panics?: 78
• Security and the Compromised Spaces of Contemporary Childhood: 99
• 7 Childhood and Transgression: 115
• Orphans and Economic Dependency: 128
• Against the NeoLiberal Assault on Social Life: 147
• Reconsidering the Child Labour Debate: 167
• 11 The Priceless Child Revisited: 184
• Towards a Political Economy of Childhood: 201
• 13 Social Justice and the Rights of Children: 221
• 14 Collective Action and Agency in Young Childrens Peer Cultures: 231
• Childrens Perspectives on Age Agency and Memory across the Life Course: 248
• an Essay on the Structuring of Childhood and Anticipatory Socialization: 267
• Index: 283

About the author

HILDE BOJER is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oslo, Norway SARA BRAGG works as a lecturer in media studies at the University of Sussex, UK, and as a consultant at the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK DAVID BUCKINGHAM is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University, UK, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media WILLIAM A. CORSARO is the Robert H. Shaffer Class of 1967 Endowed Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA KIRSTEN DROTNER is Professor at the Department of Literature, Culture and Media Studies, University of Southern Denmark JUDITH ENNEW is Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, UK IVAR FRØNES is Professor of Sociology, University of Oslo, Norway HEINZ HENGST is Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences at the Hochschule Bremen and a member of the Institut für Popularkultur und Kinderkultur at the University of Bremen, Germany ALLISON JAMES is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK CHRIS JENKS is Professor of Sociology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Brunel University, UK. He is also a co-editor of the journal Childhood CINDI KATZ is Professor of Geography at the City University of New York, USA STEPHEN KLINE is a Professor at Simon Fraser University, USA MICHAEL LAVALETTE is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Liverpool, UK OLGA NIEUWENHUYS has degrees in sociology and anthropology and is a Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands HELMUT WINTERSBERGER is Dr. of Social Sciences and Lecturer in Political Sciences at the University of Vienna, Austria VIVIANA A. ZELIZER is Lloyd Cotsen '50 Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, USA

Bibliographic information

• Title: Studies in Modern Childhood: Society, Agency, Culture
• Editor: J. Qvortrup
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer, 2005
• ISBN: 0230504922, 9780230504929
• Length: 294 pages
• Subjects: Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects; Family & Relationships / Life Stages / General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / Children's Studies; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family