ISBN:
0-415-25674-7
,
0-415-25675-5
,
978-0-415-25675-9
Language:
English
Pages:
167 S.
Edition:
Transferred to Digital Print. 2010
Series Statement:
The _Future of Childhood Series
Keywords:
Kind Kindheit
;
Prognose
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Gesellschaft, moderne
;
Globalisierung
;
Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
Alan Prout discusses the place of children and childhood in late modernity. He argues that as the general social and economic climate has been increasingly dominated by uncertainty, so there appears to be a greater cultural confusion about the appropriate form that childhood should take.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction; Chapter 1 Changing Childhood in a Globalizing World; Chapter 2 Childhood Studies and the Modern Mentality; Chapter 3 The Dualities of the Social; Chapter 4 Childhood Nature and Culture; Chapter 5 The Future of Childhood; Afterword
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