Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood: Contemporary Issues in the Sociological Study of ChildhoodAllison James, Alan Prout First published in 1997. The second and fully revised edition of James and Prout's acclaimed seminal work on the study of childhood. |
Contents
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Chapter 1 A New Paradigm for the Sociology of Childhood? Provenance Promise and Problems | 7 |
An Interpretative Survey 1800 to the Present | 33 |
Chapter 3 Psychology and the Cultural Construction of Childrens Needs | 61 |
A Plea for Childrens Right to be Heard | 83 |
Disneyland the Family and the Multiple Rerepresentations of American Childhood | 105 |
Changing Constructions of Age for Norwegian Children | 123 |
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