The Sociology of Childhood / Edition 5

by William A. Corsaro

Overview

William A. Corsaro's groundbreaking work, The Sociology of Childhood, Fifth Edition discusses children and childhood from a sociological perspective - providing in-depth coverage of social theories of childhood, the peer cultures and social issues of children and youth, and children and childhood within the frameworks of culture and history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506390734
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	08/10/2017
Series:	Sociology for a New Century Series
Edition description:	Fifth Edition (International Student Edition)
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (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 of The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies (2009). 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.

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