Theorizing Childhood - Softcover

a An exciting book by three of the foremost social--scientific specialists on childhood writing in Britain today; it promises to consolidate Childhood Studies as a new field of concerted endeavour.a Nigel Rapport, University of St Andrews a This new book is a spring of inspiration. Theorizing Childhood addresses in a superb way the main, if not all, relevant approaches within the a new sociology of childhooda . It demonstrates brilliantly the salience of this new field both for what it can learn from the general body of knowledge and for what it can itself contribute to modern social science...no scholar in this or neighbouring fields can afford not to read and digest it.a Jens Qvortrup, South Jutland University Centre a The framework developed here is potentially an extremely powerful one, with enormous potential to stimulate and focus our thinking about childhood -- and in particular our researcha Social Work & Social Sciences Review

In recent years there has been a rapid growth of interest in the sociological study of childhood. This new book draws together the major developments in the field. In particular, the book discusses contemporary sociological and anthropological research in order to develop key links between the study of childhood and social theory, exposing its historical, political and cultural dimensions.