The Sociology of Childhood / Edition 3

by William A. Corsaro

Overview

Corsaro (sociology, Indiana U., Bloomington) examines children and childhood from a sociological perspective based on 30 years of experience researching and teaching in this area. The second edition has been updated throughout, with new research, information, and discussion focusing especially on peer relations, friendship, children's peer culture, and the social problems of children; updated statistical indicators on the quality of children's lives in both developed and developing countries; and new chapters on different methodologies for studying children and childhood, and associated ethical concerns. For use in sociology, psychology, and education courses, and as a reference text for parents, teachers, and other adults interested in the social life and development of children. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412979436
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/22/2010
Series:	Sociology for a New Century Series
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	437
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

William A. Corsaro was Robert H. Shaffer Class of 1967 Endowed Chair and is now

Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington,

where he won the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1988. He was the first

recipient of the Distinguished Career Award for the Section on Children and Youth of

the American Sociological Association in 2013. He taught courses on the sociology of

childhood, childhood in contemporary society, and ethnographic research methods.

His primary research interests are the sociology of childhood, children’s peer cultures,

the sociology of education, and ethnographic research methods. Corsaro is the author of

Friendship and Peer Culture in the Early Years (1985), author of “We’re Friends, Right?” Inside

Kids’ Culture (2003), and coauthor with Luisa Molinari of I Compagni: Understanding

Children’s Transition From Preschool to Elementary School (2005). He is the coeditor

with Jens Qvortrup and Michael-Sebastian Honig (2009) of The Palgrave Handbook of

Childhood Studies. Corsaro was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow in Bologna, Italy, in

1983-1984 and a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellow in Trondheim, Norway, in 2003.

He received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University, Sweden, in 2016 and was

recipient of the Cooley-Mead Award from the Social Psychology Section of the American

Sociological Association in 2019.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF CHILDHOOD
Social Theories of Childhood
The Structure of Childhood and Children's Interpretive Reproductions
PART TWO: CHILDREN, CHILDHOOD AND FAMILIES IN HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
Historical Views of Childhood and Children
Social Change, Families, and Children
PART THREE: CHILDREN'S CULTURES
Children's Peer Cultures and Interpretive Reproduction
Sharing and Control in Initial Peer Cultures
Conflict and Differentiation in the Initial Peer Culture
Preadolescent Peer Cultures
PART FOUR: CHILDREN, SOCIAL PROBLEMS, AND THE FUTURE OF CHILDHOOD
Children as Social Problems
The Social Problems of Children
The Future of Childhood

Editorial Reviews

Un manuel de qualité pour des lecteurs francophones peu habitués à cheminer dans les travaux en langue anglaise.

Baptiste Besse-Patin

I like the fact that this text makes an in-depth examination of the socially-constructed nature of childhood, and illustrates how this phase of the life course has been defined differently in different time periods, which has impacted the expectations for, responsibilities of, communications with, and valuing of children during different time periods.”

Jan Buhrman