The Sociology of Childhood (Sociology for a New Century Series)

by Dr . William A . Corsaro (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2011

  $3.25

  This new edition of the only text that thoroughly covers children and childhood from a sociological perspective includes updated coverage of peer relations, friendship, and the social problems experienced by children.

  The Third Edition

  - has been thoroughly updated to reflect the recent explosion of research in the field

  - includes expanded and updated material on children's symbolic culture and material culture, and a new section, 'Children, Parents, and Consumer Culture'

  - includes new section on 'Generation M: Electronic Media in the Lives of Preadolescents and Adolescents'

  - highlights current policy debates and changing demographics regarding children's quality of life around the world.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.80

  This volume brings an extraordinary range of theoretical ideas and empirical research to a neglected area of sociology. William A Corsaro shows how children contribute to both social stability and social change through a process of interpretive reproduction, and breaks new ground by stressing the conceptual autonomy of children.

  Part One reviews traditional approaches to socialization and contrasts them with the author's perspective of interpretive reproduction. The second part places the new sociology of childhood in historical and cultural perspective. The importance of children's peer culture is defined and discussed in Part Three, and the last part considers children as social problems and also the social problems of children.