Overview
- Explores various aspects of children's social lives such as home, school, parenting, public space, children's bodies and sexualisation, technology and the internet and law
- Argues that the underlying assumptions that define our position towards children and morality are flawed as they are based on adult voices rather than children themselves
- Focuses on the nature of the images that are used to represent the child
Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Negotiating Childhoods
Book Subtitle: Applying a Moral Filter to Children’s Everyday Lives
Authors: Sam Frankel
Series Title: Studies in Childhood and Youth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-32349-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-32348-4Published: 01 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-67288-2Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-32349-1Published: 25 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-6467
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 305