'This is a superb introduction to the fascinating field of childhood studies. A series of well chosen entries provide concise summaries of key ideas, and accessible introductions to some highly complex issues. The authors brilliantly weave together their different themes with their use of cross-referencing, so that the whole is even richer than the individual parts. I would recommend it to any beginning student of Childhoods Studies, as well as more advanced ones' -
Nigel Thomas, Professor of Childhood & Youth Research, University of Central Lancashire A systematic, clear introduction to the expanding field of Childhood Studies.
Valuable entries including Agency, Play and Welfare introduce key ideas and explore interwoven multi-disciplinary themes. Definitions, summaries and key words are developed and cross-referenced by the book's intelligent organisation and flow to explain in-depth issues as respected pioneers Alison James and Adrian James offer students and specialists:
- Lucid accounts of the key concepts
- Authoritative and reliable data
- Accessible text format
The book is an ideal primer and refresher for students of Childhood Studies.
Alison James is Professor in Sociology and Adrian James is Professor in Social Work, both at The University of Sheffield.
Entries on:
Age
Agency
Best interests
Child
Child-focused Research
Child-friendly
Childhood
Childhood Studies
Children's Voices
Citizenship
Competence
Cultural Politics
Childhood
Cultural Relativism
Delinquency
Developmental Psychology
Disappearance or Loss of Childhood
Diversity
Ethnicity
Family
Friendship
Futurity
Gender
Generation
Health
Innocence
Interpretive Reproduction
Minority Group Status
Nature vs. Nurture
Needs
Parenting
Participation
Peer Group
Play
Poverty
Protection
Representation
Rights
Schooling and Schools
Sexual Abuse
Social Actor
Social Construction
Social World
Socialisation
Spaces for Children and Children's Spaces
Standpoint
Street-children
Structure
Vulnerability
Welfare
Working Children
Youth
