Key Concepts in Childhood Studies / Edition 2

by Allison James, Adrian L James

Overview

A new edition of this popular companion to childhood studies. The first edition was adopted heavily in both education and sociology departments, and the authors have made a timely, well-written update.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781446201909
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/31/2012
Series:	SAGE Key Concepts series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Allison James is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield where she is also co-director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth.

Professor Adrian James is Emeritus Professor of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction
Age and Maturity
Agency
Best Interests
Child
Child-Focused Research /Research with Children
Child-Friendly
Childhood
Child Soldiers
Childhood Studies
Children as Consumers
Children as Researchers
Children's Voices
Citizenship
Competence
Cultural Politics of Childhood
Cultural Relativism
Delinquency
Developmental Psychology
Developmentalism
Disappearance or Loss of Childhood
Diversity
Ethnicity
Familialization
Family
Friendship
Futurity
Gender
Generation
Global Childhood
Health
Innocence
Internet and New Social Media
Interpretive Reproduction
Minority Group Status
Nature vs. Nurture
Needs
Neglect
Parenting
Participation
Peer Group
Play
Poverty
Protection
Representation
Resilience
Responsibility
Rights
Schooling and Schools
Sexual Abuse
Sexualization
Social Actor
Social Construction
Social World
Socialization
Spaces for Children and Children's Places
Standpoint
Street Children
Structure
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
Vulnerability
Welfare
Work and Working Children
Youth

Editorial Reviews

Once again, James and James have produced a book which will define Childhood Studies in the coming years. This is an essential book for everyone interested in this rapidly expanding field and offers a series of short, in-depth, introductory essays which provide invaluable starting points for further exploration. Indispensible to anyone interested in studying childhood.

Heather Montgomery
Reader in the Anthropology of Childhood at The Open University

Scholars and students will welcome this updated edition of a definitive introductory text by two of the world's leading authorities in Childhood Studies. Key Concepts provides insightful and challenging discussions of some of the major themes and issues in this burgeoning field.
David Buckingham
Loughborough University

Allison and Adrian James have been amongst the pioneers who established Childhood Studies as a cross-disciplinary field relevant to all who carry out research or work with children and young people.

They are in a unique position to introduce the diverse, and in some cases overlapping and ambiguous concepts that are an inevitable, and also a healthy consequence of crossing disciplinary boundaries...

Arranged alphabetically, core ideas about "Agency" and "Development" through to "Socialisation" and "Youth" are explained in straightforward language, with a concise introduction to key theoretical debates, as well as up to date references...

This second edition is a welcome addition to the bookshelf, offering an even more comprehensive and up to date guide, which will be an essential resource for established researchers and novice students alike.

Martin Woodhead
The Open University

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