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Fast families, virtual children : a critical sociology of families and schooling /

Title
Fast families, virtual children : a critical sociology of families and schooling / Ben Agger and Beth Anne Shelton.
Author
Agger, Ben.
Publication
Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2007.

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Additional Authors
Shelton, Beth Anne.
Description
xi, 196 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Children > Social conditions > 21st century
  • Children of working parents
  • Civilization, Modern > 21st century
  • Education
  • Educational sociology
  • Families
  • Work and family
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-187) and index.
Contents
Mapping families in fast capitalism -- Implosion I: the work/family boundary -- Implosion II: accelerated childhood -- Home/school: toward a rote culture -- Class in class: capital, human capital, cultural capital -- Children of parents, children of democracy.
ISBN
  • 9781594513398 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1594513392 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781594513404 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1594513406 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2006039048
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library