A better world for children? : explorations in morality and authority
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A better world for children? : explorations in morality and authority
Routledge, 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-220) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
By exploring such diverse issues as the management of child abuse, legal reforms following sex abuse enquiries, moral explanations for the actions of child murderers, the impossible task faced by social workers and the limitations of children's rights campaigns, Michael King examines the revolutionary ideas of the social theorist, Niklas Luhmann. He demonstrates how Luhmann's theory of authopoietic systems compels readers to re-examine exactly what they mean by society.
Questioning the relationship between personal morality and political will, it challenges the assumption that changing society is merely a matter of changing attitudes and highlights the pitfalls associated with formulating social reform.
Table of Contents
Preface, Chapter 1. Good Intentions into Social Action, Chapter 2. Child Abuse and the Regulation of Male Power, Chapter 3. Juridification in the Protection of the Scottish Child, Chapter 4. Doing Good for Children - Mission Impossible?, Chapter 5. The James Bulger Trial: Good or Bad for Guilty or Innocent Children, Chapter 6. Real or Imagined Communities and Families, Chapter 7. Observing Children's Rights, Chapter 8. A Different World for Children
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