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Childhood
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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 present the mythology and reality of child abuse and society's response to it the '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.
| Title |
Childhood / Chris Jenks. |
|---|---|
| Edition |
2nd edition. |
| Publisher |
Abingdon, Oxon New York : Routledge |
| Creation Date |
2005 |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1996. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
| Content |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Notes on the Author -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1: Constituting Childhood -- The Child as 'Savage' -- The 'Natural' Child -- The 'Social' Child -- Socialization Theory - The Parsonian Paradigm -- Developmental Psychology - The Piagetian Paradigm -- 2: Sociological Approaches to Childhood -- The Conceptual Grounds of Sociological Thought -- The Concept of Development - Time, Nature and Progress -- The Child in Critical Social Theory -- Sociological Models -- Conclusion -- 3: The Birth of Childhood -- The Emergence of Childhood -- Centuries of Childhood -- Childhood and Social Control -- The Dionysian Child -- The Apollonian Child -- Conclusion -- 4: Childhood and Social Space -- Regulated Space -- Stages and Scripts -- The Timetable - A Central Metaphor of Modernity -- Foucault and the Spatiality of Childhood -- Spatialization, Periodization and the Tactics of Control -- 'Open' or 'Closed' Orders in the Educational Process -- Geographies of Power -- Public and Private Worlds -- Stranger Danger -- 5: The Abuse of Childhood -- An Increase in Child Abuse? -- The Mythology of Child Abuse -- Contemporary Explanations of Child Abuse -- The Evolution of the Child and Child Abuse -- The Politicization of Child Abuse -- The Child in Modernity - 'Futurity' -- The Child in Post-Modernity - 'Nostalgia' -- Conclusion -- 6: The Strange Death of Childhood -- Traditional Conceptions of Childhood? -- The Moral Ground? -- What is 'The Child'? -- What does the Child Need? -- What Can be Done? -- 7: Childhood and Transgression -- The Enlightenment and Nietzsche's Challenge -- George Bataille and Heterology -- Transgression - A Childhood Urge? -- All That is Solid Melts into Air -- Madness is Childhood -- Postscript -- References -- Index. |
| Series |
Key ideas |
| Extent |
1 online resource (188 p.) |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997010708360505171 |
MARC RECORDS
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