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Key concepts in childhood studies /

James, Allison.

Key concepts in childhood studies / Allison James and Adrian James. - Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, 2008. - vi, 152 p. ; 21 cm. - SAGE Key Concepts series .

CW709 CW_HRCYF_M CW_HXCYF_M

Includes bibliographical references.

Age -- Agency-- Best interests -- Child -- Child-focused Research -- Child-friendly -- Childho Childhood Studies -- Children's Voices -- Citizenship -- Competence -- Cultural Politics of Childhood -- Cultural Relativism -- Delinquency -- Developmental Psychology -- Disappearance or Loss of Childhood -- Diversity -- Ethnicity -- Family -- Friendship -- Futurity -- Gender -- Generation -- Health -- Innocence-- Interpretive Reproduction -- Minority Group Status -- Nature vs. Nurture -- Needs -- Parenting -- Participation -- Peer Group -- Play -- Poverty -- Protection -- Representation -- Rights -- Schooling and Schools -- Sexual Abuse -- Social Actor-- Social Construction -- Social World -- Socialisation -- Spaces for Childre and Children's -- Spaces -- Standpoint -- Street-children -- Structure -- Vulnerability -- Welfare -- Working Children -- Youth.

'This is a superb introduction to the fascinating field of childhood studies. A series of well chosen entries provide concise summaries of key ideas, and accessible introductions to some highly complex issues. The authors brilliantly weave together their different themes with their use of cross-referencing, so that the whole is even richer than the individual parts. I would recommend it to any beginning student of Childhoods Studies, as well as more advanced ones' - Nigel Thomas, Professor of Childhood & Youth Research, University of....

9781412908795: £18.99 9781412908788: œ70.00 1412908795 (m)


Teenagers.
Children--Social conditions
Children.
Child development.
Teenagers--Social conditions
Society.
Sociology & anthropology
Age groups: children

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