基本説明
Includes explication of theories and empirical evidence about children's social worlds, from their day-to-day experiences in their homes, neighborhoods and schools to the impact on their lives of political, economic, and social trends at the global level.
Full Description
Kids in Context is a comprehensive overview of the new and rapidly growing field of sociology of children and childhoods. It includes explication of theories and empirical evidence about children's social worlds, from their day-to-day experiences in their homes, neighborhoods and schools to the impact on their lives of political, economic, and social trends at the global level. Alternative perceptions of children and childhood and the implications of children's subordinate social status will be examined. In keeping with the authors' view of children as active participants in society rather than simply as passive recipients of adult care and control, each chapter contains data gathered directly from children, and examples of children's contributions to their families, communities and societies are noted.
In a pair of chapters on family life, the authors examine the mutual effects of kids and parents on each other as well as the implications of changing family structures and modes of child rearing. Other chapters are devoted to the dynamics of children's group life and the creation and dissemination of children's culture, both locally and globally. Variations in childhoods resulting from inequalities of race and ethnicity, social class and gender are compared, with special attention to groups of children who have been marginalized or treated mainly as "social problems." The final chapter contains an assessment of alternative strategies for enhancing children's status and well-being.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Thinking about Children and Childhoods: Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 3 Studying Children and Childhoods: Research Methodologies
Chapter 4 Change and Diversity: The Two Constants of Family Life
Chapter 5 Kids at Home: Socialization and the Allocation of Family Resources
Chapter 6 Kids in Groups
Chapter 7 The Two Worlds of School
Chapter 8 Race, Ethnicity and Social Status: The Creation of Social Hierarchies in Childhood
Chapter 9 Becoming Girls and Boys
Chapter 10 The Rapidly Changing External Context of Childhood
Chapter 11 Kid Consumers in a Global Economy
Chapter 12 Toward a World Fit for Children
