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Socialising Children

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Allison James

    1. University of Sheffield, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Personal Lives

    • Allison James
    Pages 1-22

  3. Key Concepts, New Understandings?

    • Allison James
    Pages 23-48

  4. Family Lives

    • Allison James
    Pages 49-73

  5. Interacting Lives

    • Allison James
    Pages 74-100

  6. Embodied, Emotional Lives

    • Allison James
    Pages 101-124

  7. Institutional Lives

    • Allison James
    Pages 125-149

  8. Biographical Lives

    • Allison James
    Pages 150-172

  9. Afterword: Towards a Child-Centred Perspective on Socialisation

    • Allison James
    Pages 173-182

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 183-204
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Drawing on children's narratives about their everyday life this book explores how children come to understand the process of socialization at home, at school and in the neighbourhood as an embodied and biographical experience.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Sheffield, UK

    Allison James

About the author

Allison James is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at the University of Sheffield, UK and is also Professor II at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research in Trondheim, Norway. As one of the pioneers of the new social studies of childhood she has carried out extensive empirical and theoretical research into children's culture. Her previous publications include Constructing Childhood (with A. L. James), European Childhoods (with A. L. James) and Children, Food and Identity in Everyday Life (with A. Khørholt and V. Tingstad).

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