基本説明
Offers a critique of the role of qualitative research to the continued development of our understanding of childhood, spoken repeatedly through children's voices.
Full Description
Reviewing past and contemporary forms of the sociology of childhood, this work offers a critique of the role of qualitative research in terms of the continued development of the understanding of childhood as a social construction and social form.
Contents
Children and the sociology of childhood; unbroken voices; children, young people and qualitative methods; "Mirror, mirror on the wall. Who is the fairest of them all?" Involuntary childlessness and identity; I don't eat peas anyway! Classroom stories and the social construction of childhood; growing up respectable; "Safe"? Involving children in child protection; whose life is it anyway?; accounting for "child prostitution"; how do young Asian and white people view their problems? A step towards child-focused research; so much for "participation"; youth work and young people.
