Negotiating Childhoods

Applying a Moral Filter to Children’s Everyday Lives

von Sam Frankel

305 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book investigates how constructed representations of the child have and continue to restrict children’s opportunities to engage in moral discourses, and the implications this has on children’s everyday experiences. By considering a moral dimension to both structure and agency, the author focuses on the nature of the images that are used to represent the child and how these sit in contrast to the active and meaning-driven way in which children negotiate their everyday lives. 

The book therefore argues that ‘morality’ provides a filter to understand the backdrop for interaction, as well as offering a focus for engaging with the individual as a social agent, acting and reacting in the world around them.

Negotiating Childhoods  will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, childhood studies, criminology, social work, culture and media studies and philosophy.

 

 

• Reihe: Studies in Childhood and Youth
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Soziologie Familie, Verwandtschaft und Beziehungen
• ISBN: 9781137323484
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2017
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK