Childhood with Bourdieu [electronic resource] /
Alanen, L.editor.
Brooker, E.editor.
Mayall, B.editor.
This collection is an engaging exploration of how Bourdieu's key concepts - field, habitus and capital - help us re-think the status of childhood. The authors are committed to improving the social status and well-being of childhood in social, economic and political worlds that too often fail to accord children respect for their human rights.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Intergenerational Relations: Embodiment over Time; 3 Cultural Capital in the Preschool Years: Can the State 'Compensate' for the Family?; 4 Between Young Children and Adults: Practical Logic in Families' Lives; 5 Early Childhood Education as a Social Field: Everyday Struggles and Practices of Dominance; 6 'A Fish in Water?' Social Lives and Local Connections: The Case of Young People Who Travel Outside Their Local Areas to Secondary School; 7 Childhood in Africa between Local Powers and Global Hierarchies
8 'Those Who Are Good to Us, We Call Them Friends': Social Support and Social Networks for Children Growing up in Poverty in Rural Andhra Pradesh, India9 Struggling to Support: Genesis of the Practice of Using Support Persons in the Finnish Child Welfare Field; 10 Decision-making Processes in Review Meetings for Children in Care: A Bourdieusian Analysis; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This collection is an engaging exploration of how Bourdieu's key concepts - field, habitus and capital - help us re-think the status of childhood. The authors are committed to improving the social status and well-being of childhood in social, economic and political worlds that too often fail to accord children respect for their human rights.
Economic development.
Social groups.
Family.
Educational sociology.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Psychology.
Development Studies.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Sociology of Education.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Social Theory.
Popular Science in Psychology.