Troubling Children - Studies of Children and Social Problems

Zusammenfassung Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of children– in particular, of younger children Inhaltsverzeichnis I: Introduction; 1: Troubling Children: Children and Social Problems; II: Children in Societal Crises; 2: A Threatened Generation: Impediments to Children’s Quality of Life in Kenya; 3: When Parents Discuss the Price of Bread: Albanian Children and the Economic Crisis; III: Pregnancy and Infancy; 4: Little Strangers: Pregnancy Conduct and the Twentieth-Century Rhetoric of Endangerment; 5: “Crack Babies” and the Politics of Reproduction and Nurturance; IV: Families and Children; 6: Ritual, Magic, and Educational Toys: Symbolic Aspects of Toy Selection; 7: The Changing Meanings of Spanking; 8: The Positive Functions of Rock and Roll Music for Children and Their Parents; V: Schools and Children; 9: Normalizing Daycare—Normalizing the Child: Daycare Discourse in Popular Magazines, 1900–1990; 10: The Medicalization and Demedicalization of School Refusal: Constructing an Educational Problem in Japan; VI: Children’s Perspectives on Social Problems; 11: If We Don’t Do Anything Now, There Won’t Be Anything Left: Categories of Concern in Children’s Drawings of Environmental Crisis...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Joel Best, Best Joel
• Mitarbeit: Joel Best (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Transaction Publishers
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.1994
• EAN: 9780202304915
• ISBN: 978-0-202-30491-5
• Seiten: 259
• Serien: Social problems & social issues; Social Problems & Social Issues
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Psychologie > Angewandte Psychologie; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Age groups: children, Child welfare and youth services