Key Concepts in Childhood Studies

Key Concepts in Childhood Studies Synopsis

'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