TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY FOR CHILDHOOD by Berry Mayall ( 9780335208425 )

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Title:

TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY FOR CHILDHOOD
THINKING FROM CHILDREN'S LIVES

By:

Berry Mayall

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0335208428

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9780335208425

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Publisher:

OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 May, 2002

Series:

UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Health & Social Welfare

Pages:

224

Language:

English & English

Description:

To understand how society works, we must take account of children as well as adults, otherwise our explanation omits an important social group. This book argues that we should start from the children's own accounts to show how the organisation of social relations provides an explanation for their social position.

Synopsis:

"...explores some very timely and critical issues in the current development of Childhood Studies...It will be especially valuable for students because it integrates concrete empirical studies with reflection on underlying theoretical assumptions." - Leena Alanen, Professor in Early Childhood Education, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland This important book moves the sociology of childhood forward. Berry Mayall argues, that, since childhood is a permanent component of society, in order to understand how society works, we must take account of children as well as adults, otherwise our explanation omits an important social group. Children's lives are shaped by policies and practices, but they are also agents, who make a life for themselves through their relationships with adults and other children. This book argues that feminist theory and practice is useful for understanding childhood; we should start from the children's own accounts to show how the organisation of social relations provides an explanation for their social position.This is a political book: through analysis of children's own descriptions and evaluations of childhood, it argues for an improved social status of childhood, including respecting children's rights. The book also shows that in order to understand childhood we must take account of both child-adult relations (generational relations) and gender relations. It is essential reading for childhood sociologists and feminists, and for all those seeking to raise the social status of childhood. It is highly recommended to students of childhood studies, at all levels.

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