Structural, Historical, and Comparative Perspectives: 12 (Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, 12) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784413224 ISBN 13: 9781784413224

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014

Synopsis

In this volume, guest editor Qvortrup brings together contributions representing structural, historical, and comparative perspectives on the study of children and youth. Here, childhood is conceived as a structural feature of society, subject to the stable and changing forces of the larger social context, and comparable across time and cultures. Such perspectives have been relatively under-represented in the "New Sociology of Childhood," which has tended both to stress children's agency, and to favour ethnographic methods of inquiry. The series editors are pleased to expand and enliven the foci of Sociological Studies of Children and Youth with this volume edited by the internationally renowned Danish Sociologist Jens Qvortrup, the first non-U.S. editor in the series' history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784413224
• ISBN 13: 9781784413224
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Qvortrup Jens