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Childhood: Second edition: 10 (Key Ideas) - Hardcover

Book 37 of 38: Key Ideas

Jenks, Chris

 
9780415341660: Childhood: Second edition: 10 (Key Ideas)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415341663 ISBN 13: 9780415341660
Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Chris Jenks is Professor of Sociology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Brunel University. He has written numerous books on culture, sociology and childhood. He is interested in sociological theory, post-structuralism and heterology, childhood, cultural theory, visual and urban culture, and extremes of behaviour.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415341663
ISBN 13 
9780415341660
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
2
Number of pages
174