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Title

Childhood matters : social theory, practice and politics / Jens Qvortrup ... [et al.] (eds.).

Publication

Aldershot : Avebury, c1994.

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Additional Authors

Qvortrup, Jens

Description

xiv, 395 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Childhood Matters provides the reader with unique material on the living conditions of children in industrial society, and it presents a number of new theories and interpretations regarding the characteristics of childhood in modern society: in relation to family, economy, politics, time and space, intergenerational relations and demographic developments. The title Childhood Matters is pertinent in more than one sense. First of all, the book takes children seriously in their own right, in acknowledging their constructiveness as actors, not only for themselves and their own lives but also for society as a whole. Secondly, it challenges the idea of children whose target should be to become "integrated into society". School, day care and other structures constitute children's own life arenas, and it is forcefully argued that children's time and children's activities are their own, despite efforts by adult society to "colonize" them for its own purposes and interests.

Series Statement

Public policy and social welfare ; v. 14.

Uniform Title

Public policy and social welfare v. 14..

Subject

• Children > Social conditions
• Child Care [MESH]
• Childhood

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.363-392)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Childhood Matters: An Introduction / Jens Qvortrup -- Ch. 1. Gender and Generation: Feminism and the "Child Question" / Leena Alanen -- Ch. 2. Adult-Child Relations as Class Relations / David Oldman -- Ch. 3. The Feminization of Childhood / An-Magritt Jensen -- Ch. 4. Day Care -- Adult Interests versus Children's Needs? A Question of Compatibility / Maire Nic Ghiolla Phadraig -- Ch. 5. The Space and Time of Children at the Interface of Psychology and Sociology / Jiri Kovarik -- Ch. 6. Time for Children or Time for Adults / Judith Ennew -- Ch. 7. Dimensions of Childhood / Ivar Frones -- Ch. 8. Individualization and Institutionalization of Childhood in Today's Europe / Elisabet Nasman -- Ch. 9. A Methodology for Making Children Count / Angelo Saporiti -- Ch. 10. Costs and Benefits -- The Economics of Childhood / Helmut Wintersberger -- Ch. 11. To Whom Does Childhood Belong? / Lea Shamgar-Handelman.
• Ch. 12. Conceptualization of Childhood in a Welfare State: A Critical Reappraisal / Dimitra Makrinioti -- Ch. 13. Worlds of Childhood: Differentiated but Different. Implications for Social Policy / Angelika Engelbert -- Ch. 14. The Manuscript of the 100-Years Project: Towards a Revision / Marjatta Bardy -- Ch. 15. A New Solidarity Contract? The Significance of a Demographic Balance for the Welfare of both Children and the Elderly / Jens Qvortrup -- Ch. 16. The Generational Division of Welfare: Equity and Conflict / Giovanni B. Sgritta -- Childhood as a Social Phenomenon. A Series of National Reports.

ISBN

1856288560 (pbk)

LCCN

gb^94025054^

OCLC

• 30361776
• SCSB-11271158

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library