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Author:   J. Qvortrup
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2005 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781403939333

ISBN 10:   1403939330
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   05 August 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures and Graphs Notes on Contributors Varieties of Childhood; J.Qvortrup Complex Interconnections. The Global and the Local in Children's Minds and Everyday Worlds; H.Hengst Mediatized Childhoods: Discourses, Dilemmas and Directions; K.Drotner Opting into (and out of) Childhood: Young People, Sex, and the Media; D.Buckingham & S.Bragg Is It Time to Rethink Media Panics?; S.Kline The Terror of Hypervigilance: Security and the Compromised Spaces of Contemporary Childhood; C.Katz Childhood and Transgressions; C.Jenks Prisoners of Childhood: Orphans and Economic Dependency; J.Ennew 'In Defence of Childhood': Against the Neo-Liberal Assault on Social Life; M.Lavalette The Wealth of Children: Reconsidering the Child Labour Debate; O.Nieuwenhuys The Priceless Child Revisited; V.Zelizer Work, Welfare and Generational Order: Towards a Political Economy of Childhood; H.Wintersberger Social Justice and the Rights of Children; H.Bojer Collective Action and Agency in Young Children's Peer Cultures; W.Corsaro Life Times: Children's Perspectives on Age, Agency and Memory across the Life Course; A.James Structuration of Childhood: An Essay on the Structuring of Childhood and Anticipatory Socialisation; I.Frønes Index

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JENS QVORTRUP is Professor of Sociology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. For more than 20 years he has been active in establishing social studies of childhood as an academic field, both as Director of the path breaking study 'Childhood as a Social Phenomenon' and as founding president of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on the Sociology of Childhood. He is a co-editor of the journal Childhood.

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