Drawing on children’s narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience.
Table of Content
1. Personal Lives 2. Key Concepts, New Understandings? 3. Family Lives 4. Interacting Lives 5. Embodied, Emotional Lives 6. Institutional Lives 7. Biographical Lives 8. Afterword: Towards a Child Centred Perspective on Socialization
About the author
Allison James is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at the University of Sheffield, UK and is also Professor II at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research in Trondheim, Norway. As one of the pioneers of the new social studies of childhood she has carried out extensive empirical and theoretical research into children’s culture. Her previous publications include
Constructing Childhood (with A. L. James),
European Childhoods (with A. L. James) and
Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life (with A. Khørholt and V. Tingstad).
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