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Agency of Children - From Family to Global Human Rights

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor David Oswell is Reader in Sociology and Director of Postgraduate Research in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Television, Childhood and the Home: A History of the Making of the Child Television Audience in Britain (2002), Culture and Society (2006), Cultural Theory: Volumes 1–4 (2010) and various articles in academic journals and edited collections. Klappentext Uses the idea of children's agency to survey the main issues in childhood studies. Zusammenfassung David Oswell uses the idea of children's agency to survey the main issues in childhood studies! including family! schooling! crime! health! consumer culture! work and human rights. He traces the transformation of children and childhood across two centuries and places children's agency in the context of leading theoretical approaches. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; 2. Agency after Ariès: sentiments, natures and spaces; Part II. Social Theories of Children and Childhood: 3. Modern social theories: agency and structure; 4. Partial and situated agency; 5. Subjectivity, experience and post-social assemblages; Part III. Spaces of Experience, Experimentation and Power: 6. Family and household; 7. School and education; 8. Crime and criminality; 9. Health and medicine; 10. Play and consumer culture; 11. Political economies of labour; 12. Rights and political participation; Part IV. Conclusions: 13. Conclusions.

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