Negotiating Childhoods

Applying a Moral Filter to Children's Everyday Lives
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-137-32348-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 305 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 533 g

Reihe: Studies in Childhood and Youth

This book investigates how constructed representations of the child have and continue to restrict children’s opportunities to engage in moral discourses, and the implications this has on children’s everyday experiences. By considering a moral dimension to both structure and agency, the author focuses on the nature of the images that are used to represent the child and how these sit in contrast to the active and meaning-driven way in which children negotiate their everyday lives. 

The book therefore argues that ‘morality’ provides a filter to understand the backdrop for interaction, as well as offering a focus for engaging with the individual as a social agent, acting and reacting in the world around them.

Negotiating Childhoods will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, childhood studies, criminology, social work, culture and media studies and philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frankel, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Step 1 - A Theoretical Foundation.- 1. Structure & Agency.- Step 2 - Establishing a Framework.- 2. Engaging with Structure.- 3. Engaging with Agency.- Step 3 - Framing a Contextual Backdrop.- 4.  Reason.- 5. Virtue.- 6. Social Harmony.- Step 4 - Recognising Agency in Action.- 7. Negotiation the Everyday.- Step 5 - Re-positioning Children within Structure.- 8.  Restructuring Moral Discourses

Über Autor(innen)

Sam Frankel is a Visiting Professor at Kings, Western University, Canada, an Honorary Research Fellow, University of Sheffield, UK and the Director of ‘Equippingkids’ and educational organisations the Centre of Excellence for Social Learning and Act 4.