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Childhood (Key Ideas) (1996)

By Chris Jenks

Book information

Year
1996
ISBN
9780415120135, 0415120136
LCC
HQ767.9 .J45 1996
Open Library ID
OL797704M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
456 kB (467240 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
160\155
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Childhood offers a greater appreciation of the social factors that make up our knowledge of children and childhood. It gives critical framework through which to understand private attitudes and public policy in relation to the child, viewing childhood from a social constructionist perspective.The basic assumption that childhood is a social construct reveals that our understandings of childhood and the meanings that we place upon children vary considerably from culture to culture, but also quite radically within the history of any one culture.

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