Childhood /
Chris Jenks.
- Second edition.
- ix, 173 pages ; 21 cm.
- Key ideas .
- Key ideas. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-162) and index.
Constituting childhood -- Sociological approaches to childhood -- The birth of childhood -- Childhood and social space -- The abuse of childhood -- The strange death of childhood -- Childhood and transgression.
Offering a greater appreciation of the social factors that make up our knowledge of children and childhood, this work views childhood from a social constructionist perspective, giving a critical framework through which to understand private attitudes andpublic policy in relation to the child.