Structural, historical, and comparative perspectives
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Structural, historical, and comparative perspectives
(Sociological studies of children and youth / series editor, David A. Kinney, v. 12)(Emerald books)
Emerald, 2009
1st ed
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this volume, guest editor Qvortrup brings together contributions representing structural, historical, and comparative perspectives on the study of children and youth. Here, childhood is conceived as a structural feature of society, subject to the stable and changing forces of the larger social context, and comparable across time and cultures. Such perspectives have been relatively under-represented in the "New Sociology of Childhood," which has tended both to stress children's agency, and to favour ethnographic methods of inquiry. The series editors are pleased to expand and enliven the foci of Sociological Studies of Children and Youth with this volume edited by the internationally renowned Danish Sociologist Jens Qvortrup, the first non-U.S. editor in the series' history.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors.
EDITORIAL BOARD.
Dedication.
Macro-sociological studies of childhood: a prologue to a guest issue.
The development of childhood.
Do ideas matter? Changes in policies concerning children and families in Germany and Norway.
Children and distributive justice between generations.
Poverty and human resources for children in the United States and selected rich countries.
Children's agency in politically divided societies: The case of Northern Ireland.
Confiscated time: Are children allowed to manage their own time?.
Making sense of child labour in modern society.
The value of children - fertility, personal choices and public needs.
Children's right to vote: The missing link in modern democracies.
Too many children left behind: The inadequacy of international human rights law vis-a-vis the child.
Children as bearers of the dream.
Sociological studies of children and youth.
Structural, Historical, and Comparative Perspectives.
Copyright page.
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