ISBN:
9780521843669
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (316 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Agency of Children : From Family to Global Human Rights
DDC:
305.23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Uses the idea of children's agency to survey the main issues in childhood studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction; 1: Introduction; 2 Agency after Ariès: sentiments, natures and spaces; Sentiments and descriptions; Iconographies and the accumulation of description; Concept, conception or sentiment&e_x003F; ; Collective subjectivity and categorical thinking; Natures; Either society or biology&e_x003F; ; Biopower and writing on the life of the child; The lives of children and literary culture; Spaces; Conclusion; Part II Social theories of children and childhood; 3 Modern social theories: agency and structure; Social being and becoming
Description / Table of Contents:
The duality of structure and agencyParsons, systems and roles; The turn to Giddens; Elaborations on Giddens: structural dichotomies; Conclusion; 4 Partial and situated agency; Peer cultures; Social competence; Hegemonic negotiation; Tactical agency; Conclusion; 5 Subjectivity, experience and post-social assemblages; Subjectivity and experience; Material, heterogeneous and distributed agency; Post-social assemblages and collectivities; Foucault's apparatus; People as infrastructure; Children as a collectivity; A return to generation; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Part III Spaces of experience, experimentation and power6 Family and household; Socialisation and social system; Socialisation as the government of the 'social'; Transforming intimacy and democratising the family; Family talk and modernisation; Mediations of family in late modernity; Conclusion; 7 School and education; The emergence and standardisation of a common childhood; Discipline and power; Social interaction in educational contexts; Cultural politics of the classroom and popular culture; Conclusion; 8 Crime and criminality; Origin stories: degeneration, neglect and delinquency
Description / Table of Contents:
Hygiene and delinquencyBlaming mothers ..... and fathers; Delinquency as an ambivalent sign; Hooligans, ghettoes and gangs; Hooligans and moral panics; Hegemony and offensiveness; Media typologies; Racialised ghettoes; Representation and governmentality; Conclusion; 9 Health and medicine; Experimental observations; Charting physical and psychological growth; Interiority and development; A biomedicalisation of children's everyday lives?; Realigning children's agency; Conclusion; 10 Play and consumer culture; Toward a sociological account of play; Social and cultural histories of childhood play
Description / Table of Contents:
The dedifferentiation of childhood and adulthood?The marketisation of children's culture; Conclusion; 11 Political economies of labour; From preindustrial to industrial labour; Fordism, post-Fordism and postindustrial labour; Children's labour and the global economy; Conclusion; 12 Rights and political participation; The capacities of children: genealogies of the family and.the.political; Universalism and humanitarian NGOs; Sovereignty and humanity; Conclusion; Part IV Conclusions; 13 Conclusions; Five myths of childhood studies; The myth of the individual child
Description / Table of Contents:
The myth of identity and difference
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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