Childhood

Second edition

By:

Chris Jenks

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Key Ideas

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In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society: the history of childhood from medieval times through the enlightenment 'discovery' of childhood to the present the mythology and reality of child abuse and society's response to it the 'death' of childhood in cases such as the James Bulger murder in which the child itself becomes the perpetrator of evil. Part of the highly successful Key Ideas series, this book gives students a concise, provocative insight into some of the controlling concepts of our culture.

Author Biography:

Chris Jenks is Professor of Sociology and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Brunel University. He has written numerous books on culture, sociology and childhood. He is interested in sociological theory, post-structuralism and heterology, childhood, cultural theory, visual and urban culture, and extremes of behaviour.

Release date Australia

August 18th, 2005

Author

Chris Jenks

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Edition

2nd edition

Pages

174

Series

Key Ideas

Dimensions

140x216x15

ISBN-13

9780415341660

Product ID

2101593

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