Confiscated time: Are children allowed to manage their own time?
Structural, Historical, and Comparative Perspectives
ISBN: 978-1-84855-732-1, eISBN: 978-1-84855-733-8
Publication date: 12 August 2009
Abstract
Major merits of New Childhood Sociology are that it has introduced into sociology three fundamental points: (a) studying children as social actors, contrary to the view customarily held of them; (b) defining childhood not as a transitional phase, a state that people leave behind, but as a permanent structure of society – wherein, however, constant turnover occurs, so that childhood changes over time and in different types of society (James, Jenks, & Prout, 1998; Qvortrup, 1991, 2004); (c) considering children as essential part of a historically and socially constructed relationship with adults (Alanen, 2001), following the generational perspective already indicated by Mannheim (Mannheim, 1952).
Citation
Carmen Belloni, M. (2009), "Confiscated time: Are children allowed to manage their own time?", Qvortrup, J., Brown Rosier, K. and Kinney, D.A. (Ed.) Structural, Historical, and Comparative Perspectives (Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Vol. 12), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 139-165. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1537-4661(2009)0000012011
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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