Studies in Modern Childhood

1. Varieties of Childhood
Jens Qvortrup

2. Complex Interconnections: the Global and the Local in Children’s Minds and Everyday Worlds
Heinz Hengst

3. Mediatized Childhoods: Discourses, Dilemmas and Directions
Kirsten Drotner

4. Opting in to (and out of) Childhood: Young People, Sex and the Media
David Buckingham, Sara Bragg

5. Is it Time to Rethink Media Panics?
Stephen Kline

6. The Terrors of Hypervigilance: Security and the Compromised Spaces of Contemporary Childhood
Cindi Katz

7. Childhood and Transgression
Chris Jenks

8. Prisoners of Childhood: Orphans and Economic Dependency
Judith Ennew

9. ‘In Defence of Childhood’: Against the Neo-Liberal Assault on Social Life
Michael Lavalette

10. The Wealth of Children: Reconsidering the Child Labour Debate
Olga Nieuwenhuys

11. The Priceless Child Revisited
Viviana A. Zelizer

12. Work, Welfare and Generational Order: Towards a Political Economy of Childhood
Helmut Wintersberger

13. Social Justice and the Rights of Children
Hilde Bojer

14. Collective Action and Agency in Young Children’s Peer Cultures
William A. Corsaro

15. Life Times: Children’s Perspectives on Age, Agency and Memory across the Life Course
Allison James

16. Structuration of Childhood: an Essay on the Structuring of Childhood and Anticipatory Socialization
Ivor Frønes

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Philosophy of Education, Cultural Studies, Social Theory, Sociology, general