{"product_id":"theorizing-childhood-9780745615646","title":"Theorizing Childhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eaeo The first book to engage the study of childhood with central issues of sociological theory.  aeo The three authors are highly respected and widely read in this area.  aeo The book draws together an enormous amount of international research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An exciting book by three of the foremost social-scientific specialists on childhood writing in Britain today; it promises to consolidate Childhood Studies as a new field of concerted endeavour.' \u003ci\u003eNigel Rapport, University of St Andrews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e'This new book is a spring of inspiration. \u003ci\u003eTheorizing Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e addresses in a superb way the main, if not all, relevant approaches within the 'new sociology of childhood'. It demonstrates brilliantly the salience of this new field both for what it can learn from the general body of knowledge and for what it can itself contribute to modern social science...no scholar in this or neighbouring fields can afford not to read and digest it.' \u003ci\u003eJens Qvortrup, South Jutland University Centre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The framework developed here is potentially an extremely powerful one, with enormous potential to stimulate and focus our thinking about childhood - and in particular our research' \u003ci\u003eSocial Work \u0026amp; Social Sciences Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Imagining Childhood.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Presociological Child.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Sociological Child.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Situating Childhood.\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Childhood in Social Space.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Temporality of Childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Play as Childhood Culture?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Working Children.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. One Childhood or Many?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Body and Childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Researching Childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Theorizing Childhood.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Theorizing Childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767972036951,"sku":"9780745615646","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745615646.jpg?v=1758715742","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/theorizing-childhood-9780745615646","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}