Constructing and reconstructing childhood : contemporary issues in the sociological study of childhood /
edited by Allison James and Alan Prout.
- xvii, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Preface to Second Edition -- Introduction -- A New Paradigm for the Sociology of Childhood? Provenance, Promise and Problems -- Constructions and Reconstructions of British Childhood: An Interpretative Survey, 1800 to the Present -- Psychology and the Cultural Construction of Children's Needs -- Postscript -- A Voice for Children in Statistical and Social Accounting: A Plea for Children's Right to be Heard -- Postscript -- It's a Small World: Disneyland, the Family and the Multiple Re-representations of American Childhood -- Negotiating Childhood: Changing Constructions of Age for Norwegian Children -- Street Children: Deconstructing a Construct -- Postscript -- Who Are You Kidding? Children, Power and the Struggle Against Sexual Abuse -- Childhood and the Policy Makers: A Comparative Perspective on the Globalization of Childhood -- Postscript -- Re-presenting Childhood: Time and Transition in the Study of Childhood -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10.