Troubling Children: Studies of Children and Social ProblemsJoel Best Transaction Publishers - 253 páginas Increasingly, sociologists have turned their attention to the social problems of childrenâ in particular, of younger children. This collection reflects those recent interest. While most researchers have focused on social problems involving adolescents, this volume offers instead original case studies of problems concerning preadolescent children. The papers that Best has gathered here represent different theoretical and methodological approaches. They report on social issues in Albania, Kenya, and Japan as well as in the United States. The range of social problems they address is a wide one, from broad societal crises to decision-making within families. Topics include the effects of economic and social crises in Africa and Eastern Europe; concerns about crack use and other forms of fetal endangerment; parental decisions about spanking, toy choices, and letting children listen to rock music; schooling in day care and elementary and junior high schools; and children's perceptions of environmental crises. Troubling Children adds a new dimension to courses in social problems. It also offers a different set of perspectives for those concerned with sociology of preadolescent children and their discontents. |
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A Threatened Generation Impediments to Childrens Quality of Life in Kenya | 23 |
When Parents Discuss the Price of Bread Albanian Children and the Economic Crisis | 47 |
Little Strangers Pregnancy Conduct and the TwentiethCentury Rhetoric of Endangerment | 69 |
Crack Babies and the Politics of Reproduction and Nurturance | 93 |
Ritual Magic and Educational Toys Symbolic Aspects of Toy Selection | 117 |
The Changing Meanings of Spanking | 133 |
The Positive Functions of Rock and Roll Music for Children and Their Parents | 155 |
Normalizing DaycareNormalizing the Child Daycare Discourse in Popular Magazines 19001990 | 173 |
The Medicalization and Demedicalization of School Refusal Constructing an Educational Problem in Japan | 201 |
If We Dont Do Anything Now There Wont Be Anything Left Categories of Concern in Childrens Drawings of Environmental Crisis | 221 |
Biographical Sketches of the Contributors | 247 |
Index | 251 |
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Troubling Children: Studies of Children and Social Problems Joel Best Pré-visualização limitada - 2017 |
Troubling Children: Studies of Children and Social Problems Joel Best Pré-visualização indisponível - 1994 |