Childhood And Society Growing up in an Age of Uncertainty

Published

2001

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

ISBN-13

9780335206087

ISBN-10

0335206085

Pages

157

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Childhood and Society charts the emergence of the conceptual and institutional divisions between adult 'human beings' and child 'human becomings' over the course of the modern era. It then examines the contemporary economic and ideological trends that are eroding the foundations of these divisions. The consequences of this age of uncertainty are examined through an assessment of sociological theories of childhood and through a survey of children's varied positions in a globalizing and highly mediated social world.