Research Catalog

Title

Children and society : the family, the state and social parenthood / Adam Jamrozik and Tania Sweeney.

Author

Jamrozik, Adam.

Publication

South Melbourne : Macmillan Education Australia, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Sweeney, Tania.

Description

ix, 254 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

This important book examines the life of children in modern society and addresses the following key questions: What determines the nature of childhood? What is the place and value of children in society? What is the future of children likely to be? Children and Society demonstrates that in contemporary industrialised societies like Australia, social policies - and the institutions which act as instruments of these policies - tend to perpetuate inadequate and unequal treatment of children. A wealth of recent data, much of which has been produced by the authors, is presented and analysed in the book to highlight the inadequacy and inequality of current policies. This analysis is followed by the examination of government policies affecting children and families, noting especially the diversity of service systems which help to maintain social divisions and inequalities.

Subject

• Children > Australia
• Families > Australia
• Family policy > Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of tables and figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The social construction of childhood -- 2. Socialisation of children and social reproduction -- 3. Children, families and social class -- 4. Children and families in cities and suburbia -- 5. Child welfare: social care or social control? -- 6. Child care: child development or child minding? -- 7. The school system: learning, socialisation, or a sorting-out process? -- 8. Health services: a universal service or new inequalities? -- 9. Children, families and the state: the shifting concerns -- 10. Services for children and families: policy rhetoric and social realities -- 11. Children, families and the 'caring' professions -- 12. The future of childhood: from family care to social parenthood -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 0732931886
• 0732931894 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library