Studies in modern childhood
Subtitle: society, agency, culture
By: edited by Jens Qvortrup.
Contributors: Qvortrup, Jens.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Children.; Children -- Social conditions.; Child development.; Postmodernism.
Description: "Sixteen leading researchers in the burgeoning field of childhood studies contribute to this wide ranging volume, covering urgent and important issues in the field. Demonstrating significant advances in social studies of childhood, the authors present new theoretical and/or empirical work, bringing original nuances and perspectives to bear on existing questions and introducing new topics. The contributions range from seeing children as provokers of the social system to highlighting hypermodern societies' trend towards intruding into children's lives with technical devices. In this sense the tension between agency and structure is not discarded, but reappears in new forms and contexts such as media, child work, and distribution of welfare.

Children are seen as collectively creating their own worlds but at the other extreme, in orphanhood, they are prisoners of childhood. This is a book for an interdisciplinary readership."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Varieties of childhood / Jens Qvortrup; title: Complex interconnections : the global and the local in children's minds and everyday worlds / Heinz Hengst; title: Mediatized childhoods : discourses, dilemmas and directions / Kirsten Drotner; title: Opting in to (and out of) childhood : young people, sex and the media / David Buckingham and Sara Bragg; title: Is it time to rethink media panics? / Stephen Kline; title: The terrors of hypervigilance : security and the compromised spaces of contemporary childhood / Cindi Katz; title: Childhood and transgression / Chris Jenks; title: Prisoners of childhood : orphans and economic dependency / Judith Ennew; title: 'In defence of childhood' : against the neo-liberal assault on social life / Michael Lavalette; title: The wealth of children : reconsidering the child labour debate / Olga Nieuwenhuys; title: The priceless child revisited / Viviana A. Zelizer; title: Work, welfare and generational order : towards a political economy of childhood / Helmut Wintersberger; title: Social justice and the rights of children / Hilde Bojer; title: Collective action and agency in young children's peer cultures / William A. Corsaro; title: Life times : children's perspectives on age, agency and memory across the life course / Allison James; title: Structuration of childhood : an essay on the structuring of childhood and anticipatory socialization / Ivar Frønes.