Bringing together two topics of wide and growing sociological interest, The Body, Childhood and Society examines how children's bodies are constructed in school
The landmark work on the social significance of childhood. The original and vastly influential ideas of Erik H. Erikson underlie much of our understanding of hu
The new edition of this established core textbook continues to give an insightful, authoritative and accessible overview of competing theoretical positions on t
This book investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span