Constructing and reconstructing childhood : contemporary issues in the sociological study of childhood

A new paradigm for the sociology of childhood? Provenance, promise and problems, Alan Prout and Allison James constructions and reconstructions of British childhood - an interpretive survey, 1800 to the present, Harry Hendrick psychology and the cultural construction of children's needs, Martin Woodhead a voice for children in statistical and social accounting - a plea for children's right to be heard, Jens Qvortrup it's a small world - Disneyland, the family and the multiple representations of American childhood, Pauline Hunt and Ronald Frankenberg negotiating childhood - changing constructions of age for Norwegian children, Anne Solberg street children - deconstructing a construct, Benno Glauser who are you kidding? children, power and the struggle against sexual abuse, Jenny Kitzinger childhood and the policy makers - a comparative perspective on the globalization of childhood, Jo Boyden re-presenting childhood - time and transition in the study of childhood, Allison James and Alan Prout.