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Informationen zum Autor Chris Jenks is Professor of Sociology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Brunel University. He has written numerous books on culture, sociology and childhood. He is interested in sociological theory, post-structuralism and heterology, childhood, cultural theory, visual and urban culture, and extremes of behaviour. Klappentext In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society:the history of childhood from medieval times through the enlightenment 'discovery' of childhood to the presentthe mythology and reality of child abuse and society's response to itthe 'death' of childhood in cases such as the James Bulger murder in which the child itself becomes the perpetrator of evil.Part of the highly successful Key Ideas series, this book gives students a concise, provocative insight into some of the controlling concepts of our culture. Zusammenfassung In this fascinating book Chris Jenks thoroughly examines the concept of childhood. He focuses on the way the image of the child is played out in society, looking specifically at its image through history and the reality of child abuse. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Constituting Childhood Chapter 2. The Conceptual Limitations of a Sociological Approach to Childhood Chapter 3. The Birth of Childhood Chapter 4. The Abuse of Childhood Chapter 5. The Strange Death of Childhood Postscript
